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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11/15/2011 Radiation Spreads to France

Source: Washington's Blog
Date: 11/15/2011

France Hit with Radiation


I reported yesterday that a blanket of radioactive iodine – indicating a new nuclear release – has hit Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
Today, Agence France Presse reports that it has hit France as well:

France´s nuclear watchdog on Tuesday said it had detected traces of radioactive iodine in the air last week ….
Concentrations of iodine 131 measuring a few microbecquerels per cubic metre were detected last week at four monitoring stations in northern and eastern France, the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) said.
“Although the presence of iodine 131 over national territory is quite exceptional… the level of concentrations that have been observed are of no risk for public health,” it said in a press release.
“The source and date of the radioactive emissions which caused this pollution are currently unknown,” the IRSN said.
Iodine is a very short-lived isotope that decays to half of its radioactivity in only eight days.

As I noted yesterday, mainstream authorities are saying – without proof – that it can’t be from Fukushima.

11/14/2011 Are Fukushima Reactors 5 and 6 In Trouble Also?

Source: Washington's Blog
Date: 11/14/2011

Are All 6 Fukushima Reactors In Trouble?

Everyone knows that Fukushima reactors 1-3 have melted down, and the fuel pool at reactor 4 is ruined.
But reactors 5 and 6 have been almost entirely ignored since the earthquake because – we were assured – the reactors were in controlled shutdown prior to the earthquake, and so all was safe.
However, there are rumors of problems.

11/12/2011 IAEA Iran Report Spins Intelligence

Source: TheRealNews
Date: 11/12/2011

Gareth Porter: Dubious intelligence used as pretext for tougher sanctions


Editor's Note: The UN nuclear watchdog the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is 80% funded by the nuclear industry. Is this more dubious intelligence such as presented to the public to get them on board with an invasion of Iraq? There was no "yellow cake" or WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) as you recall.  This same war drum has been beaten in the past regarding Iran being on the verge of developing nuclear weapons.

Back in 1951 Iran was actually a friend and had a democratically elected leader Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.  However, the Iranian government decided to nationalize their oil fields, which were previously all controlled by the British owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.  As a result, the CIA and MI5 organized a coup (Operation Ajax) to overthrow that friendly regime, causing eventually the Shah (a brutal dictator) to be installed.  The Shah was overthrown by the Mullahs and this is the current regime in place today.  These are historical facts and can be verified via Wikipedia.


Essentially we have only ourselves to blame with regards to the current regime which is in place in Iran, which is the result of more of the same terrible hegemonic foreign policy.

11/11/2011 Radiation Levels Up in Europe, Depleted Uranium & More: Infowars Nightly News

Source: Infowars Nightly News
Date: 11/11/2011 (Veterans Day)
by: Alex Jones


See also:

1. United Nations Agency Downplays Increased Radiation in Europe  
2. Riddle of the radiation sweeping across Europe: UN nuclear agency mystified by soaring levels 
3. Why World War III: Destroy The Global Economy, Create A Greater Israel, And Establish A Global Authoritarian Government
4.  Japanese Debris to Start Hitting Western U.S. and Canada THIS WEEK 
5. Iran will be able to build nuclear bomb within months, IAEA says 
6. Ahmadinejad: IAEA chief is a tool for the US 
7. Israel may launch strike on Iran as soon as next month to prevent development of nuclear weapons

11/6/2011 Los Angeles rain water found 3x normal background by EnviroReporter

Source: EnviroReporter YouTube channel
Date: 11/6/2011


[11/6/2011] 6:30 pm 10-minute INTERIOR average of SECOND SANTA MONICA RAIN: 140.0 CPM^ or 221% HIGHER THAN PREVIOUS BACKGROUND! 

This stunning detection suggests radon progeny generated by continuing fissile re-criticality at the three melted down and out Fukushima nuclear reactors and perhaps additional radiation caused by the Japanese government's decision to burn over 550,000 tons of radioactive waste in October, much of which will end up as fallout.

11/6/2011 IAEA report to detail efforts by Iran to develop a nuclear weapon

Source: CNN
Date: 11/6/2011
By Elise Labott



Washington (CNN) -- The upcoming report by the International Atomic Energy Agency will make the most detailed charges to date that Iran's nuclear program is geared toward weapons development and military use, several Western diplomats briefed on the report told CNN.
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11/8/2011 Tokyo Starts Burning Radioactive Waste from Other Areas … Tokyo Governor Tells Residents to “Shut Up” and Stop Complaining About It

Source: Washington's Blog
Date: 11/8/2011

Tokyo Governor Tells Residents to “Shut Up” Instead of Complain About Burning of Radioactive Debris

I noted in August:

Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says in a new interview that the Japanese are burning radioactive materials. The radioactivity originated from Fukushima, but various prefectures are burning radioactive materials in their terroritories.
Gundersen says that this radioactivity ends up not only in neighboring prefectures, but in Hawaii, British Columbia, Oregon, Washington and California.

Now Tokyo is starting to burn radioactive debris from other prefectures.

11/3/2011 Criticality Confusion at Fukushima Daiichi

After checking the RadiationNews™ Google gadget, I noticed ENENEWS (the tab one to the right of this feed) has highlighted that The Japan Times is calling for an investigation to determine the true seriousness of the condition now at the melted down Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.  In The Japan Times article Find out true reactor conditions from 11/4/2011 JST it is reported that re-criticality (a sustained fission reaction) has occurred and that TEPCO has initially (on Tuesday 11/1/2011 JST) reported localized temporary criticality:

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Because the half life of xenon-133 is 5.25 days and that of xeon-135 is 9.14 hours, criticality is very likely to have occurred just before the gases were analyzed.

Although more than seven months have passed since the start of the nuclear fiasco, clearly the reactor has not yet been stabilized. Tepco's plan to achieve "cold shutdown" of the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 reactors by the end of this year may face difficulty.

The fact that Tepco cannot deny the possibility of criticality irrespective of its scale is a grave situation. The conditions are similar in the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 reactors. It is thought that nuclear fuel in them melted and has collected in the bottom of both the pressure and containment vessels.

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After claiming that possible criticality was indicated by release of various isotopes of Xenon gas TEPCO has now backtracked to say it is only a spontaneous fission reaction of curium (a less serious condition).  So what is really true?  TEPCO has had a tendency to lie, downplay and delay releasing news concerning their crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant so it is likely that something more serious is going on than what they are attempting to present to the public.  For example, per the ENENEWS article Krypton-85 up over 14,000% in one day at Reactor No. 2 — Kr-85 used to detect “plutonium separations” the existence of Krypton-85 in Fukushima Daiichi reactor 2 is indicative of plutonium fission.

11/1/2011 Japanese MP drinks Fukushima water under pressure from journalists

Source: UK Guardian
Date: 11/1/2011
by: Justin McCurry

Yasuhiro Sonoda's hands shake as he drinks water collected from the plant to back up government claims of decontamination  Yasuhiro Sonoda drinks a glass of decontaminated water taken from puddles inside the buildings housing reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Photograph: Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images

It was a simple gulp of water, but one that Japan's government hopes will carry symbolic importance as it seeks to ease concern over decontamination efforts at the scene of the country's nuclear crisis.
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