Source: The Nikkei via Prisonplanet.com
Date: Friday, July 20, 2012
TOKYO (Nikkei)--A Cabinet Office council has proposed five cities -- Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, Nagoya and Fukuoka -- to replace Tokyo as the seat of government should an earthquake knock out the capital.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
7/21/2012 Fun with geiger! Antique store
Source: ichica4x (Christina Consolo aka RadChick)
Date: 7/21/2012
Video Description
Date: 7/21/2012
Video Description
This video was uploaded from an Android phone. Detroit-area antique
store near Eastern Market, shot July 21, 2012. Uranium or "Vaseline
Glass" is pretty common in antique stores. I'm guessing this is a higher
uranium content than most, because I've checked glass like this before
and never got such a reading!
Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting. The proportion usually varies from trace levels to about 2% by weight uranium, although some 19th-century pieces were made with up to 25% uranium.[1][2]
The normal colour of uranium glass ranges from yellow to green depending on the oxidation state and concentration of the metal ions, although this may be altered by the addition of other elements as glass colourants. Uranium glass also fluoresces bright green under ultraviolet light and can register above background radiation on a sufficiently sensitive Geiger counter, although most pieces of uranium glass are considered to be harmless and only negligibly radioactive...except this peice apparently, jeez.
Uranium glass was once made into tableware and household items, but fell out of widespread use when the availability of uranium to most industries was sharply curtailed during the Cold War in the 1940s to 1990s. Most such objects are now considered antiques or retro-era collectibles, although there has been a minor revival in art glassware. Otherwise, modern uranium glass is now mainly limited to small objects like beads or marbles as scientific or decorative novelties.
You can see many "Vaseline Glass" examples on Ebay. To spot it in a store look for the greenish-yellow color. Its usually labelled as such, and a bit pricey. I wouldnt recommend eating off of it :/
Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting. The proportion usually varies from trace levels to about 2% by weight uranium, although some 19th-century pieces were made with up to 25% uranium.[1][2]
The normal colour of uranium glass ranges from yellow to green depending on the oxidation state and concentration of the metal ions, although this may be altered by the addition of other elements as glass colourants. Uranium glass also fluoresces bright green under ultraviolet light and can register above background radiation on a sufficiently sensitive Geiger counter, although most pieces of uranium glass are considered to be harmless and only negligibly radioactive...except this peice apparently, jeez.
Uranium glass was once made into tableware and household items, but fell out of widespread use when the availability of uranium to most industries was sharply curtailed during the Cold War in the 1940s to 1990s. Most such objects are now considered antiques or retro-era collectibles, although there has been a minor revival in art glassware. Otherwise, modern uranium glass is now mainly limited to small objects like beads or marbles as scientific or decorative novelties.
You can see many "Vaseline Glass" examples on Ebay. To spot it in a store look for the greenish-yellow color. Its usually labelled as such, and a bit pricey. I wouldnt recommend eating off of it :/
Thursday, July 19, 2012
7/19/2012 Sweden's Ringhals-2 nuclear reactor fails after restart
Source: Reuters
Date:
(Reuters) - Sweden's Ringhals-2 nuclear
reactor was shut down on Thursday morning, less than nine hours
after being restarted, due to a technical glitch, the Nordic
power exchange said in a market message.
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Date:
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| Ringhals nuclear power plant in Varberg (Reuters / Scanpix Sweden) |
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Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb : NPR
Source: NPR
Date: 7/18/2012
by Robert Krulwich
Updated July 18, 2012: We have added an update to this post, which you can find below the original. Click here to read about what happened to the men.
They weren't crazy. They weren't being punished. All but one volunteered to do this (which makes it all the more astonishing).
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Read the rest and see video here.
Date: 7/18/2012
by Robert Krulwich
Updated July 18, 2012: We have added an update to this post, which you can find below the original. Click here to read about what happened to the men.
They weren't crazy. They weren't being punished. All but one volunteered to do this (which makes it all the more astonishing).
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Read the rest and see video here.
7/18/2012 Electrical disturbance causes scram at Limerick nuclear plant - pottsmerc.com
Source: The Mercury [Pottstown, PA local paper]
Date: 7/18/2012
(Updated at 2:35 p.m.) LIMERICK — An electrical disturbance in a “non-nuclear” part of Limerick Generating Station caused a disruption requiring the shut down of the Unit 1 reactor Wednesday morning.
The disturbance “caused a loss of power to generator cooling equipment” requiring a manual scram, or shutdown, of the reactor around 8:15 a.m., according to Dana Melia, communications manager at the nuclear plant, “A manual scram occurs when the plant’s control room operators insert all of the control rods into the reactor at once, halting the fissioning process and shutting down the reactor,” explained Neil Sheehan of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Editor's Note: Map of Limerick Nuclear Generating Station.
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Date: 7/18/2012
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| Only one cooling tower was emitting water vapor Wednesday, evidence of the Unit 1 shut down at Limerick Generating Station. John Strickler/The Mercury |
The disturbance “caused a loss of power to generator cooling equipment” requiring a manual scram, or shutdown, of the reactor around 8:15 a.m., according to Dana Melia, communications manager at the nuclear plant, “A manual scram occurs when the plant’s control room operators insert all of the control rods into the reactor at once, halting the fissioning process and shutting down the reactor,” explained Neil Sheehan of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Editor's Note: Map of Limerick Nuclear Generating Station.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
7/16/2012 36 Percent Of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Growths From Radiation Exposure
Source: Business Insider
Date: Jul. 16, 2012, 1:28 PM
by: Michael Kelley
Of more than 38,000 children tested from the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, 36 percent have abnormal growths – cysts or nodules – on their thyroids a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, as reported by ENENews.
The shocking numbers come from the thyroid examination section of the "Sixth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey," published by Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Symptoms Research (FRCSR) and translated by the blog Fukushima Voice.
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Date: Jul. 16, 2012, 1:28 PM
by: Michael Kelley
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There are about 360,000 Fukushima residents who were 18 or younger in March 2011.
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The shocking numbers come from the thyroid examination section of the "Sixth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey," published by Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Symptoms Research (FRCSR) and translated by the blog Fukushima Voice.
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7/16/2012 Radiation On West Coast of North America Could End Up Being 10 Times HIGHER than in Japan
Source: Washington's Blog
Date: 7/16/2012
Joke F Lübbecke of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences poured tracer dye into coastal waters off of Fukushima, and monitored its progress as it traveled to the West Coast of North America, to find out what might really happen.
They have revealed their results in a new paper published by journal Environmental Research Letters.
The paper shows that the West Coast of North American could end up with 10 times more radioactive cesium 137 than the coastal waters off of Japan itself.
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Date: 7/16/2012
In 10 Years, Peak Cesium Levels Off West Coast Could Be 10 Times Higher Than at Coast of Japan
We’ve extensively documented the fact that ocean currents bring Japanese radiation to the West Coast of North America, and that – rather than adequate ocean dilution - there could be “pockets” and “streams” of highly-concentrated radiation.Joke F Lübbecke of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences poured tracer dye into coastal waters off of Fukushima, and monitored its progress as it traveled to the West Coast of North America, to find out what might really happen.
They have revealed their results in a new paper published by journal Environmental Research Letters.
The paper shows that the West Coast of North American could end up with 10 times more radioactive cesium 137 than the coastal waters off of Japan itself.
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Read the rest here.
7/16/2012 [Massive 75K-170K strong] Anti-nuclear rally held in Tokyo
Source: NHK World
Date: Jul. 16, 2012 - Updated 15:55 UTC (00:55 JST)
by: Gene Otani
Tens of thousands of people have staged one of the biggest anti-nuclear rallies in Tokyo since the Fukushima accident in March, last year.
Labor union activists joined members of the public in the main protest rally at Yoyogi Park on Monday. Many of them responded to calls on the social network Twitter and the Internet.
Nobel prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe was among public figures who called on people to take to the streets.
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Read the rest and see the video footage of the protest here.
Editor's Note: Such protests have been going on for a while now. Here are more articles from various news agencies:
Date: Jul. 16, 2012 - Updated 15:55 UTC (00:55 JST)
by: Gene Otani
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| Organizers say 170, 000 people took part in the rally, while police estimate the number at 75,000. |
Labor union activists joined members of the public in the main protest rally at Yoyogi Park on Monday. Many of them responded to calls on the social network Twitter and the Internet.
Nobel prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe was among public figures who called on people to take to the streets.
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Read the rest and see the video footage of the protest here.
Editor's Note: Such protests have been going on for a while now. Here are more articles from various news agencies:
Thursday, July 12, 2012
7/11/2012 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 3 Reactor Building Operating Floor Area Investigation
Source: Cryptome.org
Date: 7/11/2012
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See the enlarged photographs here.
See other recent Fukushima Daiichi photographs here, including tsunami damage.
Date: 7/11/2012
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| Northwest part of the Operating Floor. Photo taken on July 11, 2012 [Captions by TEPCO. Photo striations in the originals.] |
See the enlarged photographs here.
See other recent Fukushima Daiichi photographs here, including tsunami damage.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
7/9/2012 [VIDEO] Fukushima: MAN MADE DISASTER (NOT Tsunami OR Earthquake) & update for last week
Source: MsMilkyTheClown
Date: 7/9/2012
Video Description
I've been out of town and my power went out before going out of town. Trying to catch up on Fukushima updates. I admit it, I didn't miss doing these updates at All. In fact, this may be my last update, just FYI, but this one was an important one to end on if I do stop my reports. I'm just about as "done" as a spent fuel rod - in a "safe" cooling pool.
A Japanese Government DIET panel investigation states that neither the Tsunami NOR the Earthquake caused the triple nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi. Lots of blame in many directions... but here's the update from July 5, 2012. Added to this video, I should have noted that Jelly Fish have invaded the intake valve in the Ohi (Oi) plant they started up last week, clogging the intake to the cooling water. *sigh*
http://enenews.com/ Headlines for the last week and a halfish.
"Radiation-contaminated prefectures such as Chiba (near Tokyo) should also start a serious health damage survey as soon as possible"
New photos of tsunami hitting Fukushima plant released by Tepco
Report: Mortality rising in contaminated regions of East Japan — "Very likely the number of cases of disease and death increased associated with radiation"
Posts mentioning 'leukemia' get deleted says Japanese man diagnosed with acute leukemia after 3/11
Study: Contaminated water from Fukushima reactors could double radioactivity levels of US coastal waters in 5 years — "We were surprised at how quickly the tracer spread" (PHOTO & VIDEO)
Documentary: We're still in danger from Reactor No. 4 because Tepco can't get their act together -Fukushima Resident (VIDEO)
Bacteria vs. Nuclear Waste: Scientists finding microorganisms may threaten storage of radioactive waste
Gundersen: Essentially Northern Japan is Contaminated (VIDEO)
Failed power supply at No. 4 fuel pool shows evidence of fire — Tepco says it's "covered with soot" (PHOTOS)
Nuclear Engineer Concerned About Unit 4 Support Structure: Is it going to just punch through the floor and through cracks? — What is the load transferred to? Something that's also flimsy? (VIDEO)
Incredibly contaminated house dust nearly 100 miles from Fukushima Daiichi — Gundersen: We're getting a lot of Japanese sending us their vacuum bags (VIDEO)
Large outbreak of jellyfish swarm Japan's only restarted nuclear plant — May delay full operation of reactor
Caldicott: "We're talking about a disaster of unbound proportions" from Fukushima Daiichi — 2.5 to 3 million deaths a possibility (VIDEO)
Gundersen: We just tested an air filter that has highest radioactivity seen in North America after Fukushima Daiichi — Found in Seattle HEPA filter used since 3/11 (VIDEO)
Watch: Police clamp down in Tokyo streets — "We're not allowed to get anywhere near protest" (VIDEO)
Gov't Report: Reactor 3 may have had second meltdown a week after first
Japanese journalist's call for evacuating children from Tokyo causing controversy
Gundersen: Latest probe at Unit 1 indicates nuclear fuel has left containment (VIDEO)
Remaining portion of Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 seen from Kyodo helicopter (PHOTOS)
Asahi: 150,000 join Tokyo protest organizer says — Reporter Eyewitness: "There are more than 100,000 people"
and so on...
Date: 7/9/2012
Video Description
I've been out of town and my power went out before going out of town. Trying to catch up on Fukushima updates. I admit it, I didn't miss doing these updates at All. In fact, this may be my last update, just FYI, but this one was an important one to end on if I do stop my reports. I'm just about as "done" as a spent fuel rod - in a "safe" cooling pool.
A Japanese Government DIET panel investigation states that neither the Tsunami NOR the Earthquake caused the triple nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi. Lots of blame in many directions... but here's the update from July 5, 2012. Added to this video, I should have noted that Jelly Fish have invaded the intake valve in the Ohi (Oi) plant they started up last week, clogging the intake to the cooling water. *sigh*
http://enenews.com/ Headlines for the last week and a halfish.
"Radiation-contaminated prefectures such as Chiba (near Tokyo) should also start a serious health damage survey as soon as possible"
New photos of tsunami hitting Fukushima plant released by Tepco
Report: Mortality rising in contaminated regions of East Japan — "Very likely the number of cases of disease and death increased associated with radiation"
Posts mentioning 'leukemia' get deleted says Japanese man diagnosed with acute leukemia after 3/11
Study: Contaminated water from Fukushima reactors could double radioactivity levels of US coastal waters in 5 years — "We were surprised at how quickly the tracer spread" (PHOTO & VIDEO)
Documentary: We're still in danger from Reactor No. 4 because Tepco can't get their act together -Fukushima Resident (VIDEO)
Bacteria vs. Nuclear Waste: Scientists finding microorganisms may threaten storage of radioactive waste
Gundersen: Essentially Northern Japan is Contaminated (VIDEO)
Failed power supply at No. 4 fuel pool shows evidence of fire — Tepco says it's "covered with soot" (PHOTOS)
Nuclear Engineer Concerned About Unit 4 Support Structure: Is it going to just punch through the floor and through cracks? — What is the load transferred to? Something that's also flimsy? (VIDEO)
Incredibly contaminated house dust nearly 100 miles from Fukushima Daiichi — Gundersen: We're getting a lot of Japanese sending us their vacuum bags (VIDEO)
Large outbreak of jellyfish swarm Japan's only restarted nuclear plant — May delay full operation of reactor
Caldicott: "We're talking about a disaster of unbound proportions" from Fukushima Daiichi — 2.5 to 3 million deaths a possibility (VIDEO)
Gundersen: We just tested an air filter that has highest radioactivity seen in North America after Fukushima Daiichi — Found in Seattle HEPA filter used since 3/11 (VIDEO)
Watch: Police clamp down in Tokyo streets — "We're not allowed to get anywhere near protest" (VIDEO)
Gov't Report: Reactor 3 may have had second meltdown a week after first
Japanese journalist's call for evacuating children from Tokyo causing controversy
Gundersen: Latest probe at Unit 1 indicates nuclear fuel has left containment (VIDEO)
Remaining portion of Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 seen from Kyodo helicopter (PHOTOS)
Asahi: 150,000 join Tokyo protest organizer says — Reporter Eyewitness: "There are more than 100,000 people"
and so on...
7/10/2012 Fuel rod container at Onagawa plant found damaged
Source: NHK World
Date: Jul. 10, 2012 - Updated 10:57 UTC (19:57 JST)
The operator of the Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi Prefecture has discovered damage to fuel rod containers at the facility's No. 3 reactor.
Japan's nuclear safety agency has ordered Tohoku Electric Power Company to check and report on whether the damage was caused by the massive earthquake on March 11th last year.
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See video here
Editor's Note: Map of Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant
View Live Ustream Radiation Detectors in a larger map
Date: Jul. 10, 2012 - Updated 10:57 UTC (19:57 JST)
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| Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant |
Japan's nuclear safety agency has ordered Tohoku Electric Power Company to check and report on whether the damage was caused by the massive earthquake on March 11th last year.
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See video here
Editor's Note: Map of Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant
View Live Ustream Radiation Detectors in a larger map
Friday, July 6, 2012
7/6/2012 As Japan Says Fukushima Disaster "Man-Made & Preventable", Fears Grow for Nuclear Plants
Source: Democracy Now
Date: Friday, July 6, 2012
Video Description
DemocracyNow.org - A Japanese parliamentary inquiry has concluded last year's nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was "a profoundly man-made disaster — that could and should have been foreseen and prevented." We speak to former nuclear industry executive Arnie Gundersen about the report and what it means for U.S. nuclear facilities, in particular the 23 with a similar design to the Fukushima plant. "There is some curious information on Fukushima Unit 1, the first one to fail," Gundersen says. "It was built by an American company, General Electric, and an American architect/engineer. It's hard for the Japanese to blame themselves when this was an all-American design ... I'm concerned that the nuclear industry in the United States will say it's a Japanese problem, and it's not."
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Date: Friday, July 6, 2012
Video Description
DemocracyNow.org - A Japanese parliamentary inquiry has concluded last year's nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was "a profoundly man-made disaster — that could and should have been foreseen and prevented." We speak to former nuclear industry executive Arnie Gundersen about the report and what it means for U.S. nuclear facilities, in particular the 23 with a similar design to the Fukushima plant. "There is some curious information on Fukushima Unit 1, the first one to fail," Gundersen says. "It was built by an American company, General Electric, and an American architect/engineer. It's hard for the Japanese to blame themselves when this was an all-American design ... I'm concerned that the nuclear industry in the United States will say it's a Japanese problem, and it's not."
To watch the complete weekday independent news hour, read the transcript, download the podcast, search our vast archive, or to find more information about Democracy Now! and Amy Goodman, visit http://www.democracynow.org/
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