By Minoru Matsutani / Japan Times / November 3, 2011 / Experts just don’t know the effect on humans below 100 millisieverts The March 11 nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 plant has transformed what used to be a long-standing academic debate…
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via Fairewinds.com / October 31, 2011 / Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Washington, DC – October 31, 2011 – Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worchester Polytechnic Institute …
Continue readingby Mary-Charlotte Domandi / HuffingtonPost / October 31, 2011 / …or, “How to spend $6 billion, create 600 jobs, and prop up the most unproductive sector of the military industrial complex for another generation.” Despite President Oba…
Continue readingStudy: Fukushima storage pool was vulnerable to aftershocks – AJW by The Asahi Shimbun Study: Fukushima storage pool was vulnerable to aftershocks Previous ArticleResponse overwhelming for Fukushima decontamination workshops Next ArticleIAEA: Cleanup of low contaminated areas will be ineffectual October … Continue reading
via houseoffoust.com / October 31, 2011 [Note: A very rough translation into English of the IRSN French study on Fukushima ocean discharges. The original document in French can be found here.] Summary of knowledge on the impact on the marine environmen…
Continue readingby Marco Kaltofen, PE / apha.confex.com / Monday, October 31, 2011: 8:30 AM Marco Kaltofen, PE , Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA The Fukushima nuclear accident dispersed airborne dusts…
Continue readingnnsa.energy.gov / October 21, 2011 / WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is today releasing the raw radiation monitoring data it collected i…
Continue readingby David McNeill / Japan Focus / October 25, 2011 / In autumn last year, Shoji Katsuzo (75) was quietly farming rice, vegetables and a small herd of cattle in the picturesque village of Iitate. Today, he lives in a two-room temporary house 35 kilometer…
Continue readingby Geoff Brumfiel / Nature / October 25, 2011 / Global data on Fukushima challenge Japanese estimates The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a stud…
Continue readingvia Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Journal / Xenon-133 and caesium-137 releases into the atmosphere from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant: determination of the source term, atmospheric dispersion, and deposition A. Stohl1, P. Seibert2, G…
Continue readingvia YouTube user pejorativeglut: From the YouTube description: On the 13rd of this November, the 27th Women’s Long-Distance Relay Race will be held in Fukushima city where radiation levels are still high. A group of Japanese people like Taro Yama…
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Nuke Plants + Fault Lines + Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
Continue readingJen Tucker San Clemente Disaster Guru #FAIL
Jen Tucker, SC’s emergency preparedness guru, as a rule,
paints a “no worries, we’ve got it covered” spin to a potential
SONGS hiccup (nuke-jargon for “OMG Chet, it’s happening!!!”)
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Continue readingA film depiction of the USGS ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario
Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushima… Any Questions?
Nuke Plants + Fault Lines + Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
Continue readingSan Clemente California Fukushima USA
In the past 60 years there have been numerous military and nuclear power plant accidents which resulted in radiation poisoning to the public. Three of the biggest disasters were at Three Mile Island (USA), Cher…
Continue readingHealth Physicist & Nuclear Consultant Questions the Role of ICRP, IAEA & WHO at Fukushima Symposium … Continue reading
Into Eternity
How NOT to Learn the Lessons From Fukushima.
As a San Clemente City Manager or Council Member:
1) Exclude the public from voicing their serious safety concerns about SONWGS despite the fact that it was the public that demanded this …
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Direct evidence that the dangers of nuclear power have been underestimated.
Atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides from Fukushima
Are You Ready To Get Involved?
Nuke Pla…
Continue readingTrip Jennings | The New Mexican Posted: Monday, June 27, 2011 – 6/28/11 A spokesman for Los Alamos National Laboratory said emphatically Monday afternoon that hazardous and nuclear materials on-site aren’t threatened by the fast-moving Las Conchas Fire. The spokesman … Continue reading
Two Nebraska nuclear stations sitting on the Missouri River floodplain have been in serious danger since early June when a thousand year flood forced the US Army Corps of Engineers do controlled flooding on the river for the entire summer. The story was heavily managed (censored) by the US national media.
On March 21st and April 14th 2011 the California State Senate held two post Fukushima hearings on the safety of nuclear power in California. The first hearing in the days when Fukushima was still news generated major media in California while the 2nd hearing was nearly empty, not even our representatives showed. A promised hearing on emergency planning never took place.
This is a review of those hearings.
Continue readingJapanese workers braved radiation for temp job
KAZO, Japan — The ground started to buck at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and Masayuki Ishizawa could scarcely stay on his feet. Helmet in hand, he ran from a workers’ standby room outside the plant’s No. 3 reactor, near where he and
Deconstructing Nuclear Experts
By Chris Busby
3-29-11
Since the Fukushima accident we have seen a stream of experts on radiation telling us not to worry, that the doses are too low, that the accident is nothing like Chernobyl and so forth. They appear on television and we read their articles in the newspapers and online. Fortunately the majority of the public don’t believe them. I myself have
Continue readingThe 3-10-11 9.0 Tohoku earthquake has shook the nuclear world to its knees. An event that was predicted to never occur by every pro-nuclear apologist on the planet just did. The incident at Fukushima wasn’t an event on par with … Continue reading
It is urgent that the general public understand that you will be getting very mixed statements about what amount of radiation is safe vs. what isn’t. When events like this come into play you will be hearing two things: … Continue reading
I was appalled at the NRC chairman Jaczko’s press briefing yesterday when asked point blank how many nuclear reactors in the US were near faults… Instead of answering the question he said that all reactors near faults designed withstand both … Continue reading
From: Philippe Brousse – Directeur du Réseau Sortir du nucléaire Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 Réseau “Sortir du nucléaire” French Nuclear Phaseout Network Press release – Urgent Revelations from an EDF insider : EPR reactor prone to major nuclear accident … Continue reading
Field of secrets: The Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup saga hits 20 – LA Daily News BEFORE the spring of 1989, all most people knew of the Santa Susana Field Lab were the occasional rocket tests that sent a thundering … Continue reading
For more information, contact: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148 For immediate release, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Livermore Lab Caught Conducting Illegal Restricted Bio-Experiments Tri-Valley CAREs recently received documents that the group had long been seeking under the Freedom of … Continue reading
The Free Press — Independent News Media – Harvey Wasserman How Chernobyl could happen here April 21, 2009 A catastrophe like Chernobyl could happen here. It’s the radioactive core of the second biggest lie in US industrial history. The atomic … Continue reading
Confidential documents reveal Finnish nuclear reactor cannot be guaranteed safe WEBWIRE – Wednesday, August 13, 2008 International — Finland, August 2008 — Confidential documents obtained by Greenpeace reveal that basic safety procedures have not been followed in the construction of … Continue reading
Majority of Portsmouth/Piketon Sick and Dying Atomic Workers of The Cold War Still Not Compensated National and Local Activist Groups Lobby Congress To Intervene Over 70% of eligible nuclear workers formerly employed at the nuclear weapons complex in Piketon during … Continue reading
La Jicarita News – Community Advocacy for Northern New Mexico Nuclear Workers Struggle with an Unworkable Claims Process By Mark Schiller In the October 2007 issue of La Jicarita News I wrote an article about the dysfunction and corruption that … Continue reading
  New AMACOM Book Chronicles the Story of One Community’s 18-Year Struggle with Big Government and Big Business NEW YORK, NY, November 2, 2007 –/WORLD-WIRE/— AMACOM, a division of the American Management Association, has released a new book, NUCLEAR NEBRASKA: … Continue reading
PETITION FOR CONGRESS TO END NEGLIGENT DELAY OF COMPENSATION TO WORKERS MADE ILL FROM SERVICE IN THE COLD WAR IN THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX Mismanagement, misrepresentation and misplacement of workers’ medical records by the U.S. Department of Energy … Continue reading
Nuclear Plant Site Declared Safe — Courant.com HADDAM — – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave the former Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant site a clean bill of health Monday, releasing several hundred Haddam Neck acres for unrestricted public use. … Continue reading
Panel weighs new information in Rocky Flats case : The Rocky Mountain News Federal scientists acknowledged Monday they have records suggesting workers from 19 buildings at the top-secret Rocky Flats site near Denver may have risked exposure to dangerous … Continue reading
Cibola County Beacon – Former workers meet with federal caseworkers GRANTS – Only one third of the uranium workers who could be applying for compensation under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program and Part E of that program … Continue reading
Nuclear Plants Subject to Terrorism, Earthquakes, States Warn WHITE PLAINS, New York,, November 16, 2007 (ENS) – New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the attorneys general of five other states have submitted a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory … Continue reading
The Free Press — Independent News Media – Harvey Wasserman November 18, 2007 One of the biggest lies ever told in American industrial history is that “no one died at Three Mile Island.†In the frenzy to get public funding … Continue reading
POWER Magazine : DOE pushing to recycle closed plants’ spent fuel The Energy Department is planning to ask Congress in next year’s budget request for authority to take title to spent nuclear fuel stockpiled at closed U.S. nuclear plants … Continue reading
Over 50 years of exposure but still no comprehensive health studies on Navajo – Kathy Helms Gallup Independent By Kathy Helms Dine Bureau Thursday, November 15, 2007 WINDOW ROCK – No health studies, no problem. A burgeoning list of cancers, … Continue reading
TheStar.com | sciencetech | Port Hope radiation tests ‘alarming’ New tests that show radiation contamination in a few Port Hope residents should compel the federal government to put the town under a health microscope, local advocates say. The results, … Continue reading
The VA’s Claim Dodge | The American Prospect Beyond the awful conditions at Walter Reed hospital, something smells fishy in the government’s handling of veterans’ claims. One appalling case study suggests what might be happening and why. … Continue reading
Atomic vet dies with no compensation OTTAWA – Donald Bernicky, one of a group of atomic veterans fighting the government and the Defence Department for recognition and financial compensation, died on Remembrance D … Continue reading
globeandmail.com: Town’s residents test positive for uranium contamination The result of testing conducted on a small group of residents of Port Hope has found contamination by uranium of military or industrial origin. Four of nine people tested had unusual … Continue reading
CTV.ca | Angry residents want federal contamination study Residents of a small town east of Toronto are demanding the federal government investigate new data that shows radioactive chemicals are making their way into humans. According to the Port Hope … Continue reading
FBI Closes Probe of Nuke Plant Vandalism | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited Monday November 12, 2007 10:01 PM MIAMI (AP) – A tiny hole in a pipe at a nuclear power plant led to a big investigation over … Continue reading
Rocky Mountain News – By Laura Frank, Rocky Mountain News November 7, 2007 More than 800 people who worked in the top-secret Building 881 in the early years of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons site will now qualify for automatic … Continue reading
Rocky Mountain News – Judy DeHaas The Rocky © Marlene Shannon’s husband, Mike Shannon, died more than four years ago from cancer. For years he worked in Rocky Flats Building 881 where, according to records, workers were exposed to neutron … Continue reading