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.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
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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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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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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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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.
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.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
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
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.
http://www.llrc.org
http://www.greenaudit.org
http://www.bsrrw.org
http://www.euradcom.org
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.
http://www.llrc.org
http://www.greenaudit.org
http://www.bsrrw.org
http://www.euradcom.org
Saturday, October 15, 2011
10/13/2011 Radiation Hotspot in Tokyo Linked to Mystery Bottles
Source: Reuters via Scientific American
Date: October 13, 2011
by: Yoko Kubota
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)
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)
Friday, October 14, 2011
10/12/2011 Japanese church seeks help with rebuilding plans in Chicago suburbs
Source: Daily Herald
Date: 10/12/2011 8:55 PM
A Baptist congregation displaced by radiation from the nuclear plant meltdown after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami can’t go home again. But members are determined to rebuild as close as possible.
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Date: 10/12/2011 8:55 PM
A Baptist congregation displaced by radiation from the nuclear plant meltdown after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami can’t go home again. But members are determined to rebuild as close as possible.
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Read full article here
10/14/2011 Tokyo Hit With Fukushima Radiation
Source: Washington's Blog
Date: 10/14/2011
Date: 10/14/2011
Fukushima Radiation Hits Tokyo
CNN reports today:An extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday, prompting the local government to cordon off the small area, local officials said.Perhaps it is just some random contaminated bottles.
Radiation levels were higher in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward than in the evacuation area around the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to ward Mayor Nobuto Hosaka.
“We are shocked to see such high radiation level was detected in our neighborhood. We cannot leave it as is,” Hosaka told reporters.
But the tsunami-struck Fukushima plant may not be the source of the radiation, Hosaka said later on state television.
Officials searching for the cause found “glass bottles in a cardboard box” in the basement of a house in the neighborhood which sent radiation detectors off the charts, he said on NHK.
“We suspect these bottles in basement could be the cause of the high radiation reading and we are hastily working to confirm it,” he said.
Radiation experts are now checking what contaminated the bottles, a Setagaya ward official told CNN, declining to be named in line with policy.
10/13/2011 Crack discovered in Davis-Besse containment building
Source: WTOL 11 HD
Date: Oct 13, 2011 5:18 PM CDT
Date: Oct 13, 2011 5:18 PM CDT
OAK HARBOR, OH
(WTOL) - Workers replacing the nuclear reactor head at the Davis-Besse
plant discovered a crack in a concrete containment building Monday.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
10/13/2011 Strong earthquake [Magnitude 5.9] hits off the coast of Oregon, no damage
Source: Lincoln Tribune
Date: October 13, 2011 – 1:38 am
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Date: October 13, 2011 – 1:38 am
COOS BAY, OREGON (BNO NEWS) -- A strong earthquake struck off the
coast of Oregon on early Wednesday evening, seismologists said, but
there were no reports of damage or casualties and no tsunami warning was
issued.
The 5.9-magnitude earthquake at 8.13 p.m. local time (0413 GMT Thursday) was centered about 144 miles (233 kilometers) west of Coos Bay, a city located in Coos County on the Pacific coast. It struck about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The USGS said it did not expect to see damage or casualties due to the earthquake's distance from the coast, and there were no immediate reports of tremors being felt anywhere along the coast.
Wednesday's earthquake was one of the strongest earthquakes to hit off the coast of Oregon in recent years, but no tsunami warning was issued by the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WCATWC).
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Editor's Note: This earthquake was downgraded by the USGS to a Magnitude 5.3.
The 5.9-magnitude earthquake at 8.13 p.m. local time (0413 GMT Thursday) was centered about 144 miles (233 kilometers) west of Coos Bay, a city located in Coos County on the Pacific coast. It struck about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The USGS said it did not expect to see damage or casualties due to the earthquake's distance from the coast, and there were no immediate reports of tremors being felt anywhere along the coast.
Wednesday's earthquake was one of the strongest earthquakes to hit off the coast of Oregon in recent years, but no tsunami warning was issued by the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WCATWC).
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Editor's Note: This earthquake was downgraded by the USGS to a Magnitude 5.3.
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10/12/2011 The major news this week is the Strontium-90 found in Yokohama, which is even further from Fukushima I than Tokyo
There are many corroborating sources regarding deadly radionuclides or high levels of radiation being found far from the 20 km exclusion zone around Fukushima I. Bloggers, CNN, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and Kyodo News (amongst others) have confirmed that Strontium-90 has indeed been found in Yokohama, which is South of Tokyo and even further away than the major city from the melted down Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The apartment rooftop where the Stontium-90 was found is 155 miles (250 km) away from Fukushima I. This indicates that dangerous radioactive contamination is more far reaching than originally thought. Note that the testing was done by a private testing lab, not the government.
Here is a series of articles from this week concerning this topic:
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Here is a series of articles from this week concerning this topic:
| Date | Source | Headline |
|---|---|---|
| 10/12/2011 | CNN | Radioactive sediment found miles from Japan nuclear crisis zone |
| 10/13/2011 | Fukushima Diary | News: This is where strontium is |
| 10/12/2011 | Fukushima Diary | News: NHK manipulates again |
| 10/11/2011 | EX-SKF Blog | Test Result on Strontium-90 Detection in Yokohama |
| 10/12/2011 | Enformable | Japanese Government has “always known” about concentrated radiation hot spots discovered In Tokyo, Yokohama |
| 10/12/2011 | ABC | Radioactive material found 250km from Fukushima |
| 10/12/2011 | Kyodo News | Radioactive strontium found in Yokohama, 250 km from Fukushima plant |
| 10/13/2011 | Kyodo News | High levels of radiation detected in Tokyo |
| 10/13/2011 | The Japan Times | Yokohama finds high strontium-90 levels |
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Monday, October 10, 2011
10/10/2011 Nuclear decontamination to begin in Japan
Source: NHK World
Date: 10/10/2011
by: Catherine Kobayashi and Keiko Kitagawa
Part 1: Decontamination plan compiled http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/10_24.html
The Japanese Environment Ministry has come up with a revised plan to clear away radioactive substances from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
It announced details on Monday at a meeting of a panel of experts.
Ministry officials say decontamination will be carried out in areas where radiation levels are higher than 1 millisievert per year.
The ministry revised an earlier plan to only decontaminate places with more than 5 millisieverts per year. Municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture that have areas with less than 5 millisieverts argued they should be included in the cleanup.
The government will be responsible for the decontamination of no-entry zones and government-designated evacuation zones. Local governments will clean up the rest of the affected areas.
Areas with radiation levels higher than 20 millisieverts per year will be reduced stage by stage as soon as possible.
In areas with less than 20 millisieverts per year, radiation levels recorded at the end of August will be cut up to 60 per cent in the next 2 years.
Environment Ministry officials say the government will help prefectures that have a massive amount of radioactive waste.
The ministry's decontamination plan will be further discussed within the government before being adopted by the Cabinet as the basic national plan.
Monday, October 10, 2011 22:04 +0900 (JST)
Part 2: IAEA team continues observing decontamination http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/10_26.html
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency have observed the Japanese government's experimental decontamination of a farm in Iitate Village. The land is in Fukushima Prefecture, inside the government-designated evacuation zone.
The 12 experts on the IAEA team arrived in Fukushima on Sunday to give advice about effective methods to clear away radioactive substances.
They visited a rice paddy on Monday where the experimental decontamination is being carried out.
Government officials explained radiation levels were reduced by 75 percent per kilogram of soil after workers removed 4 centimeters of top soil. They also said the dose of radiation in unpolished rice was about 0.1 percent of that of soil.
IAEA experts say these radiation levels are low and pose no problem.
They also inspected a site that uses 400 degree Celsius heat to process plants containing radioactive substances.
Government officials said they contained radioactive cesium within the plants when they converted them into charcoal. They said this method could help reduce the weight of plants.
An IAEA member said it would be necessary to work out a plan to effectively burn massive amounts of plants.
The IAEA experts are meeting Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato on Tuesday, their last day in the prefecture.
Monday, October 10, 2011 22:18 +0900 (JST)
Date: 10/10/2011
by: Catherine Kobayashi and Keiko Kitagawa
Part 1: Decontamination plan compiled http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/10_24.html
The Japanese Environment Ministry has come up with a revised plan to clear away radioactive substances from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
It announced details on Monday at a meeting of a panel of experts.
Ministry officials say decontamination will be carried out in areas where radiation levels are higher than 1 millisievert per year.
The ministry revised an earlier plan to only decontaminate places with more than 5 millisieverts per year. Municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture that have areas with less than 5 millisieverts argued they should be included in the cleanup.
The government will be responsible for the decontamination of no-entry zones and government-designated evacuation zones. Local governments will clean up the rest of the affected areas.
Areas with radiation levels higher than 20 millisieverts per year will be reduced stage by stage as soon as possible.
In areas with less than 20 millisieverts per year, radiation levels recorded at the end of August will be cut up to 60 per cent in the next 2 years.
Environment Ministry officials say the government will help prefectures that have a massive amount of radioactive waste.
The ministry's decontamination plan will be further discussed within the government before being adopted by the Cabinet as the basic national plan.
Monday, October 10, 2011 22:04 +0900 (JST)
Part 2: IAEA team continues observing decontamination http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/10_26.html
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency have observed the Japanese government's experimental decontamination of a farm in Iitate Village. The land is in Fukushima Prefecture, inside the government-designated evacuation zone.
The 12 experts on the IAEA team arrived in Fukushima on Sunday to give advice about effective methods to clear away radioactive substances.
They visited a rice paddy on Monday where the experimental decontamination is being carried out.
Government officials explained radiation levels were reduced by 75 percent per kilogram of soil after workers removed 4 centimeters of top soil. They also said the dose of radiation in unpolished rice was about 0.1 percent of that of soil.
IAEA experts say these radiation levels are low and pose no problem.
They also inspected a site that uses 400 degree Celsius heat to process plants containing radioactive substances.
Government officials said they contained radioactive cesium within the plants when they converted them into charcoal. They said this method could help reduce the weight of plants.
An IAEA member said it would be necessary to work out a plan to effectively burn massive amounts of plants.
The IAEA experts are meeting Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato on Tuesday, their last day in the prefecture.
Monday, October 10, 2011 22:18 +0900 (JST)
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