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Post by clone on Mar 5, 2012 18:37:09 GMT -8
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Post by xo on Mar 8, 2012 19:15:02 GMT -8
Anti-Poverty TV: Fukushima farmer speaks of his father after suicide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL5SdWUg8H014 Feb 2012 Hisashi Tarukawa, who farmed organic vegetables in Fukushima for 30 years, committed suicide on March 24. His last words: "This is it for farms in Fukushima." His conviction to provide safe food was shattered. His son, Kazuya, is striving to succeed the family line and land that have lasted for eight generations in an effort seeming so vain. We interviewed him for Anti-Poverty TV at Anti-Poverty Festa 2012, held on the 11th month anniversary of Great East Japan Disaster in Fukushima City
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Post by clone on Mar 20, 2012 8:37:30 GMT -8
Fukushima Radioactive Ocean Impact Map - March 2012 Update www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eh4nBVJTswRadioactive Sea Water Particle Tracing from Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Find more information at www.asrltd.com/japanASR’s Response to the Japan Tsunami Ocean scientists at ASR Limited have used the Japan tsunami as a research tool to push the limits of our modelling and research capabilities. We have focussed on three aspects of the Japan event: 1) Developing and fine tuning a real time tsunami assessment tool for vulnerable ports an harbours in New Zealand. 2) Tracking the transport and distribution of debris washed in to the ocean as it crosses the Pacific Ocean and 3) Modelling the distribution of radioactive seawater emanating from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. www.asrltd.com/japan/
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Post by moabiter on Mar 29, 2012 8:24:44 GMT -8
Fukushima Reactor 2 Messed Up Something Awful: Deadly 72 SV Radiation, No Water March 27, 2012 [By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press–7 hours ago TOKYO (AP) — One of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool it, according to an internal examination Tuesday that renews doubts about the plant’s stability.] The reactor cam was sent in again and … [The data collected from the probes showed the damage from the disaster was so severe, the plant operator will have to develop special equipment and technology to tolerate the harsh environment and decommission the plant, a process expected to last decades.] (I would never have guessed that) How bad is the radiation?? [“detected radiation levels up to 10 times the fatal dose inside the chamber.. radiation levels up to dangerously high 70 sieverts per hour”] 1 SV is enough to nearly kill you. 10 SV/hr will definitely kill you. 70 SV/hr will probably cook you faster than a hot dog in a microwave. Water in a reactor provides two functions, one is that it is coolant. The other is that it SHIELDS RADIATION. If there is no water, there is no shield. That is why more: www.asianweek.com/2012/03/27/reactor-2-messed-up/
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Post by yip yap yap on Apr 4, 2012 22:29:13 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Apr 4, 2012 22:32:13 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Apr 26, 2012 12:08:22 GMT -8
Canada's emergency response unco-ordinated after Fukushima: report April 25, 2012 OTTAWA — The Canadian government's ability to handle a nuclear disaster is questioned in a new report assessing federal actions during last year's Fukushima crisis. The emergency revealed a confused federal bureaucracy, unsure of what departments were responsible for measures such as informing Canadians of radioactive fallout migrating across the Pacific, says the report by a special review committee established by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. That and other concerns, "exposed the lack of clearly defined responsibilities and leadership as it pertains to a nuclear emergency in Canada or a global event," it says of the federal government. more: www.canada.com/news/Canada+emergency+response+unco+ordinated+after+Fukushima+report/6518098/story.html
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Post by clone on May 4, 2012 17:06:52 GMT -8
Japan to switch off final nuclear reactor AFPAFP – 1 hour 58 minutes ago The last working reactor in Japan is to be switched off Saturday, leaving the country without nuclear power just over a year after the world's worst atomic accident in a quarter of a century. As technicians ready to close down the No. 3 unit at Tomari in Hokkaido, the debate over whether Japan needs nuclear power has been reignited, amid increasingly shrill warnings of summer power blackouts. Hokkaido Electric Power, which runs the plant, said they would at 5pm (0800 GMT) begin inserting control rods that would halt the chain reaction and bring the reactor to "cold shutdown" some time on Monday. The shuttering will mark the first time since the 1970s that resource-poor and energy-hungry Japan has been without nuclear power, a technology that had provided a third of its electricity until meltdowns at Fukushima. more: ca.news.yahoo.com/japan-nuclear-free-first-time-since-1970-103954273.html__________________________________ Construction starts on new Chernobyl cover 26 April 2012 After laying flowers at the memorial near the plant's north gate that commemorates the work of those that took early action during the accident, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych took part in a ceremony to launch the assembly of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure. This arched structure - some 108 metres high, 257 metres wide and 150 metres long - will be assembled on concrete rails and slid into place over the broken buildings of Chernobyl 4, which was destroyed by the steam and hydrogen explosions that followed a power excursion in April 1986. Some 20,000 tonnes of steel will be used in the structure's construction, the first batch of which was delivered to site last month. www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-Construction_starts_on_new_Chernobyl_cover-2604124.html
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Post by clone on May 7, 2012 12:31:27 GMT -8
Wiki:The 'Ndrangheta, an Italian mafia syndicate, has been accused by pentito Francesco Fonti, a former member of 'Ndrangheta, of sinking at least 30 ships loaded with toxic waste, much of it radioactive. In 2005, Fonti revealed the conspiracy in the news magazine L'espresso. His statements led to widespread investigations into the radioactive waste disposal rackets, involving Giorgio Comerio and his disposal company, the Odm (Oceanic Disposal Management).[3] Legambiente, an Italian NGO for the protection of the environment provided the public prosecutor’s office with all the data collected by Legambiente since 1994 concerning the disappearance of at least 40 ships in Mediterranean waters.[4] Over two decades Italian prosecutors have looked into more than 30 suspicious deep-water sinkings. They suspect that Italian and foreign industrialists have acted in league with the 'Ndrangheta, and possibly government agencies, to use the Mediterranean as a dumping ground. Vessels that sank in fair weather had suspicious cargo, sent no mayday or the crew vanished.[2] According to Fonti a manager of ENEA paid the clan to get rid of 600 drums of toxic and radioactive waste from Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, and the US, with Somalia as the destination, where the waste was buried after buying off local politicians. Former employees of ENEA are suspected of paying the criminals to take waste off their hands in the 1980s and 1990s. Shipments to Somalia continued into the 1990s, while the 'Ndrangheta clan also blew up shiploads of waste, including radioactive hospital waste, and sending them to the sea bed off the Calabrian coast.[5] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste_dumping_by_the_%27Ndrangheta
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Post by clone on May 21, 2012 20:30:30 GMT -8
Turning Over Rocks What is Uranium Mining in Nebraska Doing to Pine Ridge’s Drinking Water? Elisha Yellow Thunder has a very personal reason for her research into mining contamination impacting some of the poorest counties in the country, better known as the Pine Ridge Indian reservation. www.thereader.com/index.php/comments/turning_over_rocks/- Despite appearances, Laila was born with a number of medical anomalies: a cystic kidney that looked like a cluster of grapes, partially developed reproductive organs a deformity in her lower spine. She required two surgeries immediately after birth. Her cystic kidney was removed, leaving Laila with only one functioning kidney. - When Elisha was pregnant with Laila she was living in Loneman, South Dakota near Oglala, an area that Elisha says she came to find was a hotspot for uranium contamination. Elisha began to suspect that the Laila’s birth defects were due to drinking water contaminated with uranium during the first six months of her pregnancy. Her other two children were born on a portion of the reservation with Sandhills water, recognized as the cleanest water on the reservation. Both of Elisha’s other children were born healthy. - A number of open pit uranium mines have already left their legacy on South Dakota. LaGarry says that there are 88 open pit uranium mines in the area that are no longer in use. While studying outcrops near Ludlow, South Dakota he registered that he received radiation levels comparable to Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped for 15-minutes. The area under study was only 2/10 of a mile from the playground of an elementary school. - According to LaGarry’s report published in 2008, he had several concerns with the Crow Butte Resources ISL mining operations near Crawford, Neb. plentyblog.com/2008/07/31/expert-opinion-regarding-isl-mining-in-dawes-county-nebraska/- Documentary filmmaker Suree Towfighnia—who is shooting a film about Laila, the issues with ISL mining, and water concerns on Pine Ridge—says that mining companies have never demonstrated an ability to return water contaminated back to its original level of purity. “They say they can, but they’ve never done it.” www.prairiedustfilms.com/cryingearthriseup/- Cameco, a Canadian corporation based in Saskatchewan, Canada is the world’s leading producer of uranium, with a checkered history of environmental stewardship. It operates the CBR uranium mine near Crawford, Neb. Its Highland-Smith Ranch operations in Wyoming was touted as being a leader in environmental responsibility, but according to a report by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (See full report here). - Regulators only discovered many of these violations after investigating an anonymous tip. Among other things, the report also went on to say that spills at the mine resulted in a total 202,247 gallons of mining fluids escaping, with only 3,500 gallons recovered. This raises the question: Where did the remaining 198,747 gallons of mining fluids end up, and how effectively are regulators able to monitor the mines? - Cameco subsidiary Crow Butte Resources (CBR) ISL mine near Crawford, Neb. has been cited for a number of violations, as well. From Aug. 12, 1997 to Oct. 7, 2011 a total of 52 License Violations were compiled. A number of these are for excursions from monitor wells and pond leaks. - Towfighnia says that the perception that uranium mined from Crawford is reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil interests is false. She says, “None of it feeds energy locally. It’s taken to facilities in Canada and Illinois, enriched there and sent to energy plants around the world.” Towfighnia says that her production company Prairie Dust Films is researching exactly where it goes, but that the trail is hard to follow. - The fight to stop Crow Butte’s expansion to open two new ISL uranium operations in Nebraska is currently under contention. An article from an Oglala Sioux group, Owe Aku (Bring Back The Way), sums up the many questions that linger: “Have the nuclear waste tailings from the [abandoned] uranium mines around the Edgemont area that washed into the Cheyenne River also gotten into the groundwater, thus traveling for many years underground to get here, under the Pine Ridge, into the Aquifer we drink from? Did the above ground tailings blow in the wind to our lands here on Pine Ridge? There has never been a definitive study across the reservation to determine possible sources of contamination.” www.thereader.com/index.php/comments/turning_over_rocks/
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Post by clone on May 21, 2012 20:38:00 GMT -8
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Something calling attention to the kidney disease, diabetes and cancer on the reservation is the fact that some say 20 to 30 years ago these health issues were not widespread on Pine Ridge. People have noticed a spike in renal failure within the last 10 years.
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Post by clone on May 22, 2012 6:53:04 GMT -8
Tory staffer leaves MP’s office in wake of voter-suppression probe Posted on Friday, February 24, 2012 3:33PM EST A source said Mr. Sona resigned Thursday evening after his name started circulating in the media in relation to automated crank calls made in Guelph on election day last year. How ‘Pierre Poutine’ covered his tracks Text: Glen McGregor. Presentation: Robert Cross. The Ottawa Citizen prezi.com/dfu7pmwjm-vq/how-pierre-poutine-covered-his-tracks/
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Post by clone on May 24, 2012 17:55:26 GMT -8
Analyzing The Pieces of Robofraud (Update #7!) Friday, May 04, 2012 + Anonymous Conservatives have repeatedly singled out Sona alone among a group of workers on the campaign of Guelph candidate Marty Burke, but a source says Sona had no reason to believe Elections Canada was interested in him until he was named by unidentified senior Tories in a report on Sun News Network the day the story broke. <-- Was it just Jenni Byrne who threw Sona under the bus? Who did she talk to and get clearance from? That will be telling information in this case.+ A CTV News report cited unnnamed Conservatives saying Sona had owned up to the calls amid reports that the investigation had traced an Internet Protocol address used by “Poutine” to a home in Guelph. <-- can't find this report anywhere. Anyone know if it's legit or retracted? Is it the Fake Sona video?+ A source close to Sona said Tuesday that he did not talk to investigators on Monday. “He never spoke to Elections Canada yesterday, so whoever spoke to Elections Canada is not him,” the source said. “Whoever did, and confessed, it’s not him.” Postmedia News and the Citizen have learned that Sona has not met with Elections Canada this week and has no future meetings planned. + A source close the investigation said Tuesday that it seems unlikely that a 23-year-old, acting alone, would have been able to pull off the fairly complicated caper — recording a bilingual, legitimate-sounding message purportedly from Elections Canada, setting up a screen of two false identities using a prepaid cellphone and credit card, and expertly covering his electronic tracks. + Meanwhile Prime Minister Stephen Harper brushed aside demands Tuesday for an independent judicial inquiry or royal commission into the robocalls affair, saying that Elections Canada had already begun a probe. <-- because having two independent investigations into the largest betrayal of the Democratic process in Canadian history would just be silly. And nobody wants that.aboyandhistvshow.blogspot.ca/2012/05/analyzing-pieces-of-robofraud.html
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Post by clone on May 29, 2012 8:10:44 GMT -8
Indian Villagers Live in Fear of Another Fukushima Last Updated: May 26, 2012 IDINTHAKARAI, India—For some villagers on India’s most southern tip, a major earthquake that shook the Indian Ocean last month was a good thing. Despite tsunami alarms going off—bringing back frightening memories of the devastating tsunami in 2004—it proved a point they have long been making: The construction of India’s largest nuclear power plant on the coastline is a hazard. Thousands of protesters gathered in front of St. Lourdes church in the coastal town of Idinthakarai on southeast coast of Tamil Nadu, India to protest against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, which the protesters believe will endanger their lives and contaminate their fishing grounds. Despite the scorching heat, thousands of villagers in Idinthakarai and surrounding area have been protesting over the past months against the construction of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. Kudankulam power plant, India’s largest nuclear power plant set to be commissioned in June.more: www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/indian-villagers-live-in-fear-of-another-fukushima-241549-all.html
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Post by clone on May 29, 2012 9:34:22 GMT -8
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