Japan Disaster 2011-2012
Welcome to the Agriculture Defense Coalition Section on the Japan Nuclear Crisis which began on March 11, 2011, and continues today. Each day brings additional bad news from Japan which is now rarely reported by the United States New Media.
The following documents, pdf files, newspaper articles, studies, videos, and other information are provided so that everyone may learn more about this issue and how it impacts all of us. (These items, whenever possible have been placed in Chronological Order by subject with March 11, 2011 being designated as Day 1.)
We encourage everyone to learn more that so you can protect, as much as possible, your family and friends. There is an EPA Map below showing the areas where radiation from Japan has been found in the United States as of March 31, 2011. (The EPA no longer releases maps with this information.)
The U.S. Government is not educating the public on this critical issue because President Obama, U.S. Energy Secretary Chu, the Nuclear Regulation Commission, along with many corporations associated with nuclear power industry, want the $34Billion in taxpayer money to revitalize the nuclear power in the United States.
If the people were aware of the hazards they would say "NO" to this costly revitalization. Thus, there is a coverup going on in the U.S. that involves not warning the public about the Japan radiation hazards and the levels of radiation from Japan that we are experiencing in the U.S.
General Electric and the nuclear industry want our tax dollars and now their lobbyists are working to fleece the public of more taxpayer funding for this dangerous revitalization. The choice is our to make. If we don't speak out then we agree to this fleecing by the nuclear industry and the hazards from the new plants, waste disposal, and uranium mining, that will most likely be placed in many of your neighborhoods. The choice is yours to make today.
For more information on Boron, which was shipped, by the ton, to Japan in March 2011, by South Korea, France, and the United States: http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/content/boron
We hope that you will find the information provided below of interest with regard to the Japan Nuclear Crisis. Thank you for visiting this website.
Listing of Nuclear Power Plants in Japan - 2011
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Broadcast: 25/06/2012 - Reporter: Mark Willacy - Japanese and US nuclear experts warn that another earthquake hitting Fukushima could spark a disaster worse than Chernobyl. See PDF File Below & Read Complete Transcript: LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: One more major earthquake in Japan and the nation could face a nuclear disaster 10 times the scale of Chernobyl. That's what experts are telling 7.30. When Japan was hit last year by a massive earthquake and tsunami, the world feared nuclear catastrophe. The nation's Fukushima nuclear reactors were inside the disaster zone. We've not heard much about them for a while, but the danger certainly hasn't passed. Experts say the situation inside Fukushima reactor number four is precarious, as North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy reports from Fukushima...But few here actually realise that a few kilometres to the east is the spent fuel pool of the Fukushima nuclear plant, containing enough nuclear fuel to spawn a catastrophe to dwarf Chernobyl..."
Video here: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3532725.htm
114A-1 2011 List of Nuclear Power Plants in Japan Website March 11, 2011.pdf
114A-1 2011 Map of Nuclear Power Plants in Japan March 11, 2011 Just After 8.9 Earthquake.pdf
EPA Map of Areas Where Japan Radiation Found in United States by March 31, 2011
Japan Nuclear Power Plant Crisis - Chronology of Events Beginning on March 11, 2011
114B 2011 Meltdown Speed Varied by Reactor in Japan-Graphic+Article May 2011 News.pdf
114B-1 2011 Japan Earthquake - Fire at Nuclear Power Plant March 11, 2011 News3.co.nz.pdf
114B-001 Japan Earthquake Causes Emergencies at 5 Nuclear Power Plants APNews March 11, 2011.pdf
114B-1 2011 Japan Earthquake Triggers Nuclear Shutdown March 11, 2011 BBC News.pdf
114B-1 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 11, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-1 2011 Nuclear Emergency in Japan March 11, 2011 by Grossman Huffington Post News.pdf
114B-1 2011 Powerful Quake+Tsunami Devastates Northern Japan March 11, 2011 Entire Article.pdf
114B-1 2011 Radiation 1K Times Normal at One Japan Plant March 11, 2011 USA Today.pdf
114B-2 2011 Battered Japan Facing New Threat-Nuclear Meltdown March 12, 2011 Yahoo News.pdf
114B-2 2011 Explosion Rocks Japan Nuclear Plant March 12, 2011 AOL News.pdf
114B-2 2011 Huge Blast at Japan Nuclear Power Plant March 12, 2011 BBC News+Video.pdf
114B-2 2011 Japan After Tsunami+Earthquakes March 12, 2011 NYTimes Photographs.pdf
114B-2 2011 Japan Earthquake on Sunday BBC News March 13, 2011.pdf
114B-2 2011 Japan Fear Nuclear Plant Meltdown March 12, 2011 Aljazeera News.pdf
114B-2 2011 Japan Meltdown may be Occuring at Nuclear Plant Official Says LATimes March 12, 2011.pdf
114B-2 Japan Authorities TEPCO Plant Fuel Rods May Have Melted March 12, 2011 Reuters News.pdf
114B-3 2011 New Fire Hits Japan Nuclear Power Plant BBC News March 13, 2011 See Video.pdf
114B-4 2011 Japan Exposed Rods Spark Meltdown Fears BBC News March 14, 2011.pdf
114B-4 2011 Japan Second Nuclear Blast MOX Fuel Reactor 3 March 14, 2011 Reuters News.pdf
114B-4 2011 Japan Stricken Fuel-Cooling Pools-Danger for the Long Term March 14, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
114B-4 2011 Japan Works to Contain Nuclear Reactor Meltdowns March 14, 2011 SFChronicle News.pdf
114B-4 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 14, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-4 2011 What is a Nuclear Meltdown Vidoe MSNBC March 14, 2011 Report.pdf
114B-005 2011 Japan 4th Reactor Fukushima Fire March 15, 2010 Reuters News.pdf
114B-005 2011 Japan Suspends Work at Nuclear Plant as Radiation Surges March 15, 2011.pdf
114B-005 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 15, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-006 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 16, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-007 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 17, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-8 2011 60 Minutes Update on Japan Nuclear Power Plants March 18. 2011.pdf
114B-8 2011 Japan Pins Hopes on Power Cable to Nuclear Power Plants March 18, 2011 CBS News.pdf
114B-8 2011 Japan Races to Restart Reactors Cooling Systems NYTimes March 18, 2011.pdf
114B-8 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 18, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-8 2011 U.S. NRC Report Effects of Earthquake on Japan Nuclear Power Plants.pdf
114B-9 2011 Radioactive Material Found in Japan Tokyo Water March 19, 2011 Guardian.co.uk.pdf
114B-10 2011 Japan Catastrophe and the Disaster that Awaits 60 Minutes March 20, 2011.pdf
114B-11 2011 Japan Radiation Maximum by Prefecture March 21, 2011.pdf
114B-11 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 21, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-12 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 22, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-13 2011 Japan New Problems at Japanese Plant Subdue Optimism NYTimes March 23, 2011.pdf
114B-13 2011 Japan Nuclear Power Reactors Radiation Spreads ClimateWire March 23, 2011.pdf
114B-13 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 23, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-14 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 24, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-015 2011 Japan Nuclear Emergency March 25, 2011 Page 1 http___www.washingtonpost.pdf
114B-015 2011 Japan Nuclear Emergency March 25, 2011 Page 2 http___www.washingtonpost.pdf
114B-015 2011 Japan Nuclear Emergency March 25, 2011 Page 3 http___www.washingtonpost.pdf
114B-015 2011 Japan Nuclear Emergency March 25, 2011 Page 4 http___www.washingtonpost.pdf
114B-15 2011 Japan Nuclear Power Plants-Workers-Other Problems March 25, 2011.pdf
114B-15 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 25, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-17 2011 BBC News Japan Nuclear Workers Evacuated as Radiation Soars March 27, 2011.pdf
114B-17 2011 IAEA Briefing on Fukusima Nuclear Accident March 27, 2011 Current Situation.pdf
114B-17 2011 Japan Nuclear Workers Evacuated as Radiation Soars BBC News March 27, 2011.pdf
114B-18 2011 Japan Nuclear Power Update CBS News March 18, 2011.pdf
114B-18 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 28, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-18 2011 Toxic Plutonium Seeps Out of Japan Nuclear Plant March 28, 2011 Time-CNN News.pdf
114B-19 2011 Japan May Have Lost Race to Save Nuclear Reactor March 29, 2011 Guardian.co.uk.pdf
114B-19 2011 Japan Nuclear Plant Gets U.S. Help from Robots March 29, 2011 Guardian.co.uk.pdf
114B-19 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 29, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-20 2011 Japan Nuclear Plants=More Problems Telegraph.co.uk. News March 30, 2011.pdf
114B-20 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 30, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-21 2011 Japan Cleanup Questions as Radiation Spreads March 31, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
114B-21 2011 Japan Status of Nuclear Reactors at Fukushima Japan March 31, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
114B-21 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript March 31, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-21 2011 Radiation 10,000 Times the Health Standarard at Japan Plant March 31, 2011.pdf
114B-21 2011 U.S. NRC Earthquake Effects on Fuel Cycle Facilities-Japan March 31, 2011 .pdf
114B-22 2011 Chain Reaction May be Happening in Japan April 1, 2011 FOX News Video.pdf
114B-22 2011 Japan Crack in Nuclear Plant Pit Leaks Radioactive Water April 2, 2011 CBS News.pdf
114B-22 2011 Japan Radiation at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants April 1, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
114B-22 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript April 1, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-24 2011 Japan Nuclear Focus Shifts to Crack in Reactor 2 Reuters April 3, 2011.pdf
114B-25 2011 Japan Says it May Take Months to End Radiation Leaks April 4, 2011 Reuters News.pdf
114B-25 2011 Japan Seeks Russian Help to End Nuclear Crisis April 4 2011 Reuters News.pdf
114B-25 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcript April 4, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114B-26 2011 IAEA Japan Nuclear Reactors 1-4 Status April 5, 2011 Graphic Website.pdf
114B-27 2011 Core of Stricken Reactor in Japan-Leaked U.S. States NRC 2 NYTimes April 6, 2011.pdf
114B-27 2011 Japan Radioactive Water Leak at Fukushima Plant Stops April 6, 2011 NHK World News.pdf
114B-27 Japan Will Inject Nitrogen Gas-Reactor 1 Fukushima NHK World News April 6, 2011.pdf
114B-28 2011 Rachel Maddow Show Transcripts Website April 7, 2011 Links http___www.msnbc.msn.pdf
114B-29 2011 New Earthquake Forces Japan Workers From Plant April 8, 2011 GSNews.pdf
114B-29 2011 Radioactive Water Spilled at Japan Onagawa Nuclear Plant in Miyagi KYODO News.pdf
114B-31 2011 Plutonium as MOX Fuel or Waste Graphic April 10, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
114B-32 2011 Japan Raises Nuclear Crisis Alert to Highest Level CTV Canada News April 11, 2011.pdf
114B-32 2011 WNA Mixed Oxide MOX Fuel Website April 11, 2011.pdf
114B-033 2011 AM Report Japan Nuclear Crisis at Chernobyl Level HUB News April 12, 2011.pdf
114B-33 2011 Japan May Raise Nuclear Accident Severity Level to Highest 7 Rating=to Chernobyl.pdf
114B-35 2011 Melting of Japan Nuclear Fuel Rods Confirmed April 15, 2011 Irishtimes News.pdf
114B-41 2011 Japan TEPCO to Check if Plutonium Leaked to Seabed NHK World News April 20, 2011.pdf
114B-46 2011 Japan TEPCO Discloses Radiation Map April 25, 2011.pdf
114B-49 2011 Japan TEPCO Core Damage in Units 1-3 - Revised Estimates April 28, 2011 News.pdf
114B-77 2011 TEPCO Japan Took 2 Months on Report While Crisis Raged May 25, 2011 Yomiuri News.pdf
114BZ-3 2011 Radom Japan Residents Tested-Exposed to Radiation March 13, 2011 Breaking News.pdf
Japan Radiation - California Chronology of Events + Radiation Readings
114C-5 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster-Winds Blow Radiation Toward Pacific March 15, 2011 Yahoo News.pdf
114C-8 2011 Japan Nuclear Radiation Reaches U.S. NYTimes March 18, 2011 Risks Questioned.pdf
114C-8 2011 Japan Radiation-U.S. Experts Wrong Again March 18, 2011 The Bay Citizen News.pdf
114C-12 2011 EPA Gamma Radiation Query Result March 22, 2011 Eureka, CA.pdf
114C-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross Count Rate Fresno, CA March 29, 2011 Website.pdf
114C-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross Count Rate Riverside, CA March 29, 2011 Website.pdf
114C-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross Count Rate Sacramento, CA March 29, 2011 Website.pdf
114C-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross Count Rate San Francisco, CA March 29, 2011 Website.pdf
114C-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross County Rate Bakersfield, CA March 29, 2011 Graph Website.pdf
114C-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross Court Rate Los Angeles, CA March 29, 2011 Website Graph.pdf
114C-19 2011 Eureka, CA Beta Gross Radiation Count Website EPA March 29, 2011 Graph.pdf
114C-34 2011 University of California Berkeley UCB Milk Sampling Results April 13, 2011 Notice.pdf
114C-91 2011 Radiation on West Coast of U.S. Video CNN June 8, 2011 Health Hazards.pdf
Worldwide Japan Radiation Dispersion - Snow - Rain - Air
114E 2011 EPA RadNet Radiation Monitoring Data Website June 26, 2011 U.S. Map.pdf
114D-4 2011 Japan Stormsurf March 14, 2011 North Pacific Jet Stream Wind.pdf
114D-5 2011 Experts Think Japan Radiation Will Reach United States March 15, 2011 Michigan News.pdf
114D-5 2011 Japan Rain+Wind Steer Radiation Reach NYTimes March 15, 2011.pdf
114D-6 2011 Scientists Project Path of Radiation Plume NYTimes March 16, 2011.pdf
114D-9 2011 U.S. DOE Aerial Monitoring Results C-12 Survey Dates March 17-19, 2011 MAP Japan.pdf
114D-11 2011 Radiation Once Free Can Follow Tricky Path NYTimes March 21, 2011 Around the World.pdf
114D-12 2011 U.S. DOE Aerial Monitoring Results Japan Cumulative March 22, 2011.pdf
114D-16 2011 How Radiation Contamination Can Travel March 26, 2011 NYTimes Graphic.pdf
114D-17 2011 MSNBC News U.S. Map Showing Where Japan Radiation Found in U.S. March 27, 2011.pdf
114D-23 2011 U.S. EPA Press Release April 2, 2011 Website Update on Ongoing Radiation Monitoring.pdf
114D-25 2011 EPA Website April 4, 2011 RadNet-Precipitation-Data-Public-Release-FINAL.pdf
114D-27 2011 EPA Website April 6, 2011 RadNet Cartridge Air Filter Final Radiation Test Results.pdf
114D-32 2011 Radiation Risks from Japan Fukushima No Longer Negligible April 11, 2011 News.pdf
Japan Nuclear Radiation - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency & Other Government Agency Information
114E-12 2011 EPA RADNET Monitors Text Option View March 22, 2011 Website.pdf
114E-16 2011 EPA Radiation Ambient Monitoring Systems ERAMS-National Network-March 16, 2011.pdf
114E-20 2011 USA Today EPA Map of States Detecting Radiation March 30, 2011.pdf
114E-23 2011 EPA Japan Nulcear Radiation Monitoring Update April 2, 2011 Website.pdf
114E-23 2011 U.S. EPA Press Releases Website January 1, 2011-April 2, 2011.pdf
114E-24 2011 U.S. EPA Japan Radiation Air Monitoring Website April 3, 2011 http___www.epa.pdf
114E-28 2011 ABC News Small Amount of Japan Radiation Reaches Kansas April 7, 2011.pdf
114E-29 2011 EPA Precipitation Testing Radnet Laborabory Analysis Website April 8, 2011.pdf
114E-29 2011 U.S. EPA Radiation Doses Website April 8, 2011 General Information.pdf
114E-107 2011 EPA News Releases Air Website June 23, 2011 Website.pdf
Japan Nuclear Crisis - Food & Water Issues - Radiation Contamination
114F-20 2011 Radiation Found in U.S. Milk Coming From Japan APNews March 30, 2011.pdf
114F-26 2011 Toxic Ceasium Found in Fish Off Japan April 5, 2011 ABC News Report.pdf
114F-121 2011 Radiation Detected in Beef From Fukusima NHK World News July 9, 2011.pdf
114FZ-42 2011 FDA Will Not Test Alaska Fish for Radiation April 21, 2011 by Jeff Rense.pdf
Information on Japan Nuclear Crisis from Many Sources, Transcripts, Videos
114G 2005 C-SPAN Interview With Helen Caldicott, M.D. March 6, 2005.pdf
114G-8 2011 Helen Caldicott Press Conference The Dangers of War March 18, 2011 Video.pdf
114G-13 2011 Fairewinds Transcript+Video Update on Japan Nuclear Disaster March 23, 2011.pdf
114G-15 2011 Fairewinds Transcript+Video New on Fukushima Daiichi Japan March 25th, 2011.pdf
114G-16 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster Helen Caldicott MD News March 26, 2011.pdf
114G-21 2011 Fairewinds Transcript+Video Update on Fukushima Worse Case Scenario March 31, 2011.pdf
114G-24 2011 Fairewinds Transcript+Video criticality in Reaction 1-Japan April 3, 2011.pdf
114G-24 2011 Fairewinds Transcript+Video Criticality in Reactor 1-Japan April 3, 2011.pdf
114G-50 2011 Fairewind Associates-In the News Website April 19, 2011 Nuclear Issues.pdf
114G-91 2011 Radiation on West Coast of U.S. Video CNN June 8, 2011 Health Hazards-Gundersen.pdf
114G-099 2011 Fukushima-It is Much Worse Than You Think June 16, 2011 Article.pdf
HEALTH ISSUES
114H 2001 Potassium Iodide as a Thyroid Blocking Agent in Radiation Emergencies 2001 FDA Report.pdf
114H-6 2011 PSR News Briefing-Radiation Impacts on Human Health-Japan March 16, 2011.pdf
114H-7 2011 High U.S. Demand for Potassium Iodide Pills Despite Reassurances March 17, 2011.pdf
114H-19 2011 CDC Facts About Neupogen-Radiation Website March 29, 2011.pdf
114H-20 2011 Q+A Health Effects of Radiation Exposure March 30, 2011 BBC News.pdf
114H-29 2011 U.S. Health System Judged Undready for Nuclear Disaster GSNewswire April 8, 2011.pdf
114H-89 2011 Radiation Unknowns Weigh on Japan-Countries Around the World NYTimes June 6, 2011.pdf
114H-97 2011 Japan TEPCO Workers Radiation Exposure News June 14, 2011 News.pdf
JAPAN CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS CONTINUED FROM 114B
114I-26 2011 IAEA Japan Nuclear Power Plant Disaster Update April 5, 2011.pdf
114I-26 2011 IAEA Website Graph of Japan Nuclear Reactors 1-4 Status April 5, 2011.pdf
114I-26 2011 World Health Organization WHO FAQ Japan Nuclear Concerns April 5, 2011 Risks.pdf
114I-55 2011 Japan Predicts Radiation Spread-MAP May 4, 2011 News.pdf
114I-63 2011 Japan TEPCO Found Highly Radioactive Water Leaking Unit 3 May 12, 2011 News.pdf
114I-63 2011 Japanese Reactor Damage is Worse Than Expected May 12, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
114I-66 2011 Japan-Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Crisis 2011 NYTimes Articles May 15, 2011 Graphics.pdf
114I-68 2011 Japan TEPCO Confirms Unit 1 Core Melted Down-Leaks May 17, 2011 News.pdf
114I-69 2011 Japan Unit 1 Damaged+Flooded With Leaks May 18, 2011 News.pdf
114I-77 2011 High Levels of Cesium Detected Above Reactor 1 in Japan May 25, 2011 NHK World News.pdf
114I-77 Japan Nuclear Crisis Update What is Current Status Reuters News May 25, 2011.pdf
114I-082 Japan Special Report Posted March 11, 2011 Updated May 30, 2011 CBC World News.pdf
114I-852011 Japan New Water Circulation Systems for Japan Nuclear Plants June 2, 2011 News.pdf
114I-088 2011 Reuters Video+Transcript Courtesy TEPCO May 5, 2011 Reuters News.pdf
114I-090 2011 Japan Exporters Test for Radiation June 7, 2011 Wall Street Journal.pdf
114I-105 2011 Japan Crisis News Article Summaries Website June 22, 2011.pdf
114I-107 2011 Safety Myth Left Japan Ripe for Nuclear Crisis NYTimes June 24, 2011.pdf
114I-107A 2011 TEPCO Japan Unable to Gauge Nuclear Reactor Unit 2 Water Level June 25, 2011.pdf
114I-109 2011 Japan Nuclear Plants Halts Cooling Effort June 27, 2011 Wall Street Journal.pdf
114I-112 2011 Japan Unit 1 Reactor Leaks Problems June 30, 2011 The Japan Times.pdf
114I-114 2011 Japan Meltdown Updates July 2, 2011 Free Press News.pdf
114I-114 2011 Japan Governor Power to Shape the Future of a Nuclear Japan NYTimes July 2, 2011.pdf
114I-120 2011 TEPCO Japan to Inject Nitrogen into No.3 Reactor July 8, 2011 NHK World News.pdf
114IZ-4 2010 Japan Earthquake+Tsunami Hidden Nuclear Catastrophe March 14, 2011 Global Research.pdf
114IZ-43 2011 Radiation Dosage Chart Visualization April 21, 2011 Website.pdf
114J 1999 Guardian.co.uk July 16, 1999 Japan Nuclear Plant Radiation Leak Worse Than Feared.pdf
114J 2004 Nuclear Power Plants Shut in Japan Guardian.co.uk News August 14, 2004 Accident.pdf
114J 2007 Japan Earthquake July 17, 2007 Nuclear Power Plant Problems Waste Drums.pdf
U.S. Wants $34Billion Funded by Taxpayers to Revitalize Nuclear Industry in America
114K 2011 Japan Government Sugarcoats Dangerous Nuclear Power Plants Today+Historically.pdf
114K-113 2011 Dr. Sanjay Gupta-Nuclear Cover-up in Japan Special Report July 1, 2011.pdf
Monitoring of Radiation from Japan in United States
114M-8 2011 U.S. EPA Radiation from Japan Has Reached the United States Website March 18, 2011.pdf
114M-12 2011 EPA News Release on Radiation Levels in U.S. from Japan Disaster March 22, 2011.pdf
114M-13 2011 More U.S. States Find Traces of Radiation from Japan March 23, 2011 CNN News.pdf
114M-17 2011 Nevada Iodine-131+Zenon-133 Have Reached Nevada from Japan March 27, 2011 APNews.pdf
114M-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross Count Rate Anchorage Alaska March 29, 2011 Website.pdf
114M-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross Count Rate Corvallis, Oregon March 29, 2011 Website.pdf
114M-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross Count Rate Hartford, CT March 29, 2011 Website.pdf
114M-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross Count Rate Olympia Washington March 29, 2011 Website.pdf
114M-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross Count Rate Portland, Oregon Website March 29, 2011.pdf
114M-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross Count Rate Richland, Washington March 29, 2011 Website.pdf
114M-19 2011 EPA Radiation Beta Gross Count Rate Seattle, WA March 29, 2011 Website.pdf
114M-22 2011 U.S. Milk Supply Tested Radiation Detected 10 News.com San Diego April 1, 2011.pdf
114M-27 2011 U.S. Graph of Radiation Seattle, Washington April 6, 2011 Seattle Times News.pdf
114M-28 2011 ABC News Small Amount of Japan Radiation Reaches Kansas April 7, 2011.pdf
114MZ-19 2011 Radioactive Rain From Japan-Is Bonston, Mass. in Danger Yahoo News March 29, 2011.pdf
Japan Nuclear Power Plant Crisis in the News
114N-25 2011 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Transcripts March 11, 2011-April 4, 2011 Japan Nuclear Disaster.pdf
114N-29 2011 Few Americans Confident U.S. Ready for Nuclear Emergency APNews April 8, 2011.pdf
114N-29 2011 NYC Vets Radiological Strike Prevention Measures April 8, 2011 GSNews.pdf
114N-30 2011 End to Japan Nuclear Crisis is Years, A Fortune Away APNews April 9, 2011.pdf
114N-32 2011 Nuclear Crisis in Japan at Chernobyl Level April 11, 2011 Press Association UKPA.pdf
114N-34 2011 Nuclear Leak May Exceed Chernobyl Japan Admits April 13, 2011 Canada News.pdf
Fairewinds Associates, Inc.
June 12, 2011 Japan Nuclear Update - Vimeo
"Hot Particles" From Japan to Seattle Virtually Undetectable when Inhaled or Swallowed They are difficult to detect but air filters can collect "Hot Particles". These hot particles from Japan have been found in Seattle, Washington. Health Effects from Hot Particles - Constant Irritant inside the body-damage to localized tissue...once in the body they cannot be detected from the outside of your body. These may lead to cancer-a grave concern. Detection Information provided in Vimeo - Along with Types of Hot Particles. Plutonium, Cesium, Strontium Cobalt 60, Uranium and many others. Metallic Taste in your mouth may be sign of radiation exposure. Radiation therapy patients also note this taste.
What is the difference between short-term radiation and the type of radiation coming from Japan? These questions are answered in the video below.
Where is all that Fukushima radiation going, and why does it matter? from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Hot Particles From Japan to Seattle Virtually Undetectable when Inhaled or Swallowed from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Japan Radiation & Nuclear Issues - Foreign Countries - News
114P-25 2011 Japan Releases Low-Level Radioactive Water into the Ocean April 4, 2011.pdf
MOX FUEL - PLUTONIUM - THE DANGER (JAPAN & UNITED STATES)
114Q 2008 Japan MOX Fuel Recycling Facility May 27, 2008 Current Status Unknown.pdf
114Q 2009 Mixed Oxide MOX Fuel Information Website June 26, 2011.pdf
114Q 2009 World Nuclear Association Mixed Oxide MOX Fuel Website June 26, 2011.pdf
114Q 2011 Hazards of Storing Radioactive Fuel Rods NYTimes March 18, 2011 Graphic Page 1.pdf
114Q 2011 Hazards of Storing Radioactive Fuel Rods NYTimes March 18, 2011 Graphic Page 2.pdf
114Q 2011 Hazards of Storing Radioactive Fuel Rods NYTimes March 18, 2011 Graphic Page 3.pdf
114Q 2011 Hazards of Storing Radioactive Fuel Rods NYTimes March 18, 2011 Graphic Page 4.pdf
114Q 2011 Hazards of Storing Radioactive Fuel Rods NYTimes March 18, 2011 Graphic Page 5.pdf
114Q 2011 Hazards of Storing Radioactive Fuel Rods NYTimes March 18, 2011 Graphic Page 6.pdf
114Q-2 Japan Authorities TEPCO Plant Fuel Rods May Have Melted March 12, 2011 Reuters News.pdf
114Q-4 2011 Japan Second Nuclear Blast MOX Fuel Reactor 3 March 14, 2011 Reuters News.pdf
114Q-11 2011 Japan-Transportation of Nuclear Materials Website March 11, 2011.pdf
114Q-31 2011 Plutonium as MOX Fuel or Waste Graphic April 10, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
114Q-32 2011 WNA Mixed Oxide MOX Fuel Website April 11, 2011.pdf
Foreign Countries - Radiation from Nuclear Disaster in Japan + Other News
114R-4 2011 Asian Officials Will Monitor Japanese Imports for Radiation-Food March 14, 2011.pdf
114R-17 2011 EURDEP ARCIMS Radiation Readings-Map Europe March 27, 2011 Website.pdf
114R-19 2011 CRIIRAD Detects Iodide 131 March 29, 2011 News.pdf
114R-22 2011 European Union Checks Japan Imports for Radiation April 1, 2011 News.pdf
114R-25 2011 France Detects Radioactive Iodine in Rainwater+Milk April 4, 2011 News-Japan.pdf
114R-26 2011 France Detects Radioactive Iodine 131 in Rainwater+Milk April 5, 2011 EurActiv News.pdf
114R-27 2011 India Bans Food Imports from Japan April 6, 2011 NHK World News.pdf
114R-29 2011 Canada CFIA Widens Radiation Testing-Includes B.C. Milk April 8, 2011 News.pdf
114R-110 2011 France-Sarkozy Announces $1.43Billion Nuclear Investment LATimes June 28, 2011.pdf
114RZ-19 2011 Canada CBC News Canada March 29, 2011 Radiation Increase Seven Days Away.pdf
Nuclear Issues & Other Information
114S-8 2011 Examining the Missteps in Japan Nuclear Crisis Environment 360 March 18, 2011.pdf
114S-21 2011 Union of Concerned Scientists Information on March 2011 Nuclear Crisis in Japan.pdf
114S-28 2011 Nuclear Crisis in Japan FAQs Union of Concerned Scientists Website April 7, 2011.pdf
114S-077 2011 IAEA Probes Nuclear Accident in Japan May 25, 2011.pdf
114SZ-5 2011 Friends of the Earth Update Nuclear Crisis in Japan March 15, 2011.pdf
Actions & Statements by the United States in 2011 - Japan Nuclear Crisis
114U 2011 General Electric Immelt Heads Obama New Jobs+Competitiveness Board JAN 21, 2011.pdf
114U-111 2011 U.S. Department of Energy HSS Safety Bulletin No. 2011-01 Website June 29, 2011.pdf
114U-16 2011 Japan Radiation Spreads-U.S. Ships Washed Down Video March 26, 2010 ABC News.pdf
114U-99 2011 U.S. NRC Reveiws and Discusses its Japan Fukushima Response June 16, 2011 NEI News.pdf
Earthquakes, Tsunamis, & Volcanoes - Japan
114V 2007 Japan Hit by Powerful Earthquake July 16, 2007 Guardian.uk.news Nuclear Plants Damaged.pdf
114V 2007 NASA-Recent Research in Monitoring Earthquakes-SEPT 12, 2007 Power Point.pdf
114V 2011 ESA ENVISAT Captures Volcanic Eruptions in Japan February 4, 2011.pdf
114V 2011 Japan Shinmoedake Volcano Erupted Twice in 2011 Photograph.pdf
114V 2011 Japan Shinmoedake Volcano Erupts With Blast February 1, 2011 BBC News.pdf
114V 2011 USGS Earthquake January 12, 2011 (M 6.5) BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION 26.9 140.pdf
114V 2011 USGS Earthquake January 12, 2011 (Mw 6.5) BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION 26.9 140.pdf
114V 2011 USGS Earthquake March 9, 2011 (M 6.1) NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 38.4 142.pdf
114V 2011 USGS Earthquake March 9, 2011 (M 6.3) OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 38.5 143.pdf
114V 2011 USGS Earthquake March 9, 2011 (M 7.2) NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 38.5 142.pdf
114V 2011 USGS Earthquake March 9, 2011 (Mw 6.0) NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 38.3 142.pdf
114V-1 2011 Atmosphere-Ionosphere Response to M9 Japan Earthquake Abstract March 11, 2011.pdf
114V-1 2011 Japan Earthquake Causes Emergencies at 5 Nuclear Power Plants APNews March 11, 2011.pdf
114V-1 2011 Powerful Quake+Tsunami Devastates Northern Japan March 11, 2011 Entire Article.pdf
114V-1 2011 USGS Earthquake March 11, 2011 (M 6.1) NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 39.4 142.pdf
114V-1 2011 USGS Earthquake March 11, 2011 (M 6.6) NEAR WEST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 40.5 139.pdf
114V-1 2011 USGS Earthquake March 11, 2011 (M 7.9) NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 38.3 142.pdf
114V-1 2011 USGS Earthquake March 11, 2011 (Mb 6.5) NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 36.3 140.pdf
114V-1 2011 USGS Earthquake March 11, 2011 (Mb 6.5) NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 39.3 142.pdf
114V-1 2011 USGS Earthquake March 11, 2011 (Mb 6.8) NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 36.1 140.pdf
114V-1 2011 USGS Earthquake March 11, 2011 (Mb 7.1) OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 38.1 144.pdf
114V-1 2011 USGS Earthquake March 11, 2011 (Mw 6.2) NEAR WEST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 37.0 138.pdf
114V-1 2011 USGS Earthquake March 11, 2011 (Mw 6.3) NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 39.0 142.pdf
114V-1 2011 USGS Magnitude 8.9 Near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan 05 46 23 UTC March 11, 2011.pdf
114V-2 2011 USGS Earthquake March 12, 2011 (M 6.0) NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 38.7 142.pdf
114V-2 2011 USGS Earthquake March 12, 2011 (M 6.8) OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 37.6 142.pdf
114V-2 2011 USGS Earthquake March 12, 2011 (Mb 6.2) NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 37.4 142.pdf
114V-2 2011 USGS Earthquake March 22, 2011 M 6.6 OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 37.2 144.pdf
114V-2 2011 USGS Earthquakes JAPAN Area Note March 12, 2011 Website Notes.pdf
114V-12 2011 USGS Earthquake March 22, 2011 M 6.6OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 39.9 143.pdf
114V-21 2011 Japan Map of the Damage From the Japanese Earthquake March 31, 2011 Update NYTimes.pdf
114V-21 2011 Map of the Damage from Japanese Earthquake Radiation Levels March 31, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
114V-29 2011 Earthquake Batters Nuclear Plants April 8, 2011 NHK Word News.pdf
114V-69 2011 Earthquakes Last 8-30 Days USGS World Map Website May 18, 2011 http___neic.usgs.pdf
114V-85 2011 IAEA Mission-Japan Underestimated Tsunami Risk+Earthquakes June 2, 2011 News.pdf
114V-085 2011 Tokyo Did Not See Tsunami Risk Report States June 2, 2011 Wall Street Journal.pdf
114VZ-7 2011 Wikipedia Japan Volcano Shinmoedake - Eruptions in 2011 Website April 7, 2011.pdf
Japan Nuclear Issues Since March 11, 2011
114X-4 2011 U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Reagan Went Through Radioactive Cloud March 14, 2011.pdf
114X-5 2011 U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Detects Radiation March 15, 2011 CNN News.pdf
114X-7 2011 U.S. Showed Increasing Alarm About Nuclear Crisis in Japan March 17, 2011 Yahoo News.pdf
114X-7 2011 U.S. Shows Growing Alarm Over Japan Nuclear Crisis March 17, 2011 Reuters News.pdf
114X-8 2011 Japan Nuclear Danger Zone Stranded Await Merciful Rescue March 18, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
114X-9 2011 Elevated Levels of Radiation Found in Spinach+Milk in Japan March 19, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
114X-9 2011 Japan Bid to Protect Assets Slowed Reactor Fight March 19, 2011 Wall Street Journal.pdf
114X-14 2011 Japan TEPCO Chief Sick During Nuclear Crisis ABC News March 27, 2011.pdf
114X-19 2011 USA Response to Japan Nuclear Disaster Website March 29, 2011.pdf
114X-22 2011 Jumpers Offered Big Money to Brave Japan Nuclear Work April 1, 2011 Reuters.pdf
114X-26 2011 Radiation Tests in Japan Fukushima Schools BBC News April 5, 2011.pdf
114X-77 2011 Japan Elderly Want Final Mission Telegraph.co.uk News May 25, 2011.pdf
114X-82 Fukushima Prefectural Forestry Cooperatives in Contaminated Areas of Japan May 30, 2011.pdf
114X-93 2011 Japan Plant Owners Reprimanded APNews June 10, 2011-NYTimes.pdf
114X-107 2011 Japan Public Scrutinize Reactors June 24, 2011 More Problems Tokyo Sweats.pdf
114XZ 2011 Activist Crashes Gate at 2nd Fukushima Nuclear Facility-Failed at Crippled Plant.pdf
114XZ-3 2011 Japan Nuclear Power Plants-Possible Meltdowns March 13, 2011 Debate NYTimes.pdf
Japan Nuclear Disaster Photographs
114Y-1 2011 Photograph NYTimes March 11, 2011 Japan Disaster.pdf
114Y-1 2011 Photograph NYTimes March 11, 2011 Japan Disaster.pdf
114Y-2 2011 Photograph Japan March 12, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
114Y-4 2011 Photograph of Daiichi Nuclear Plant in Okuma, Japan Monday, March 14, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
NO COMMENT
114Z-004 2011 Level 6 Events in Japan Radiation Levels Soar The Intel Hub News March 14, 2011.pdf
114Z-6 2011 March 16, 2011 Q+A on Nuclear Crisis in Japan March 16, 2011 NYTimes.pdf
114Z-006 2011 No Comment - EX-RAD Information March 16, 2011.pdf
114Z-009 2011 No Comment Online Geiger Counter Nuclear Radiation Detector Map March 19, 2011.pdf
114Z-014 2011 Pathobiologics International Letter March 24, 2011 Japan Nuclear Crisis.pdf
114Z-017 2011 No Comment Iodine for Radioactive Fallout Iodine-131 Radiation March 27, 2011.pdf
114Z-23 2011 Japan+Radiation Items of Interest in U.S. April 2, 2011 Website.pdf
114Z-024 2011 No Comment Collapse Network Radioactive Fallout April 3, 2011 Website.pdf
114Z-024 2011 No Comment Fallout April 3, 2011 Collapse Network News.pdf
114Z-28 2011 Wikipedia List of Volcanoes in Japan Both Active+Extinct Website April 7, 2011.pdf
114Z-33 2011 How Does Fukushima Differ from Chernobyl April 12, 2011 BBC News.pdf
114Z-108 2011 Live Radiation Monitoring from West Los Angeles, CA June 26, 2011.pdf
114Z-098 2011 Narrative of Japanese Fukushima Disaster+Cover-up June 15, 2011.pdf
114Z-108 2011 NO Comment Radiation Network Website June 26, 2011 http___radiationnetwork.pdf
114Z-108 2011 NO Comment U.S. Map June 26, 2011.pdf
114Z-112 2011 IPPNW Website June 30, 2011 http___ippnw.pdf
114Z-119 2011 No Comment Timeline Fukushima II Nuclear Accidents Wikipedia Website July 3, 2011.pdf
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C-SPAN - Video "A Tale of Two Japan Cities" January 1, 1946
"...A film tells about the destruction and death caused by atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, on August 6 and 9, 1945. An eyewitness account by Jesuit priest Father John Seimes, who had been on the outskirts of Hiroshima, was included. The short film Tale of Two Cities was produced in 1946 by the United States War Department as issue number 74 of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine series..."
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Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC April 6, 2012
Update on Japan Fukushima Nuclear Power Reactors and Their Ongoing Problems
Video Segment & Transcript MSNBC - There is no technology available to solve this
problem-REACTORS NOT SAFE TODAY. This means that the plants are still releasing
radiation-Reactor #2. Humans cannot fix these reactors as radiation too high for humans
or any technology to operate in this environment. This disaster is ongoing with no solutions.
(Rains are leaching radioactive water into the oceans. What is happening to radioactive air and
water releases? This makes this disaster worse than Chernobyl.)
Second part of the Rachel Maddow segment on nuclear waste dump in Texas that has the potential to
pollute the Ogallala Aquifer and campaign financing. Read more at Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/05/the_gops_nuke_dump_donor/singleton/
Arnie Gundersen: If in Oregon, Wash., Calif. you need to demand officials test how Fukushima fallout has affected rivers and fish — Significant radiation hit west coast and settled in on Cascades (VIDEO).
The Impact of the Fukushima Radiation on the Ocean - December 7, 2011 - Community Television of Santa Cruz, CA CTA regarding the debris field from Japan Nuclear Disaster - Cesium Problem in this debris moving toward Hawaii and the Pacific Coast.
June 8, 2011 - CNN News - John King USA
Japan Nuclear Disaster Worse Than Originally Report-Radiation being found on West Coast of United States - Hazards (Arnie Gunderson Interview)
Fairewinds Associates, Inc. Video - May 2, 2011
Where is All That Japan Fukushima Radiation Going?
And Why Does it Matter?
Japan Nuclear Power Plant Crisis
Video by RussiaToday on April 25, 2011
As world marks the Chernobyl anniversary, many say that the world has failed to learn the lessons on nuclear safety that the tragedy provided. RT talks to Professor Christopher Busby, Scientific secretary of the European Committee on radiation risks, for a little more insight on 21st century's most serious nuclear crisis at Fukushima.
Fukushima, unlike Chernobyl, may not be able to be sealed or encapsulated...everything goes into the ocean. Nuclear industry is downplaying this disaster in Japan due to U.S. revitalization plans which would cost taxpayers $34Billion in current budget from President Obama.
Fairewinds Associates Video - April 26, 2011
Discusses the Explosions at Japan Nuclear Reactors in
March 2011. Uranium & Plutonium + Americium have all been found in other countries - Nuclear MOX Fuel may have been volatilized during explosion in Reactor #3. Magnitude of the plume+red flash at side of building shown in videos and photographs at the time. Test by types of isotopes in smoke after explosion not being released by Japan or U.S. (Xenon isotopes are the key.)
Gundersen Postulates Unit 3 Explosion May Have Been Prompt Criticality in Fuel Pool from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
"Apr 27, 2011 - Television Interview: With Chernobyl's 25th anniversary reminding the world of the terrifying consequences of nuclear safety negligence, many eyes have turned to the continuing crisis in Japan. RT talks to Arnold Gundersen, Energy Adviser at Fairewinds Associates, from Vermont in the United States." See Video Below:
Epidemiologist, Dr. Steven Wing, Discusses Global Radiation Exposures and Consequences with Gundersen from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Gundersen Discusses Current Condition of Reactors, TEPCO Claim of "No Fission" in Fuel Pool, and Lack of Radiation Monitoring in from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Fukushima Accident Severity Level Raised to '7': Gundersen Discusses Lack of US Radiation Monitoring Data from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen demonstrates how Fukushima's fuel rods melted and shattered from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Closing Ranks: The NRC, the Nuclear Industry, and TEPCo. Are Limiting the Flow of Information from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Newly released TEPCO data provides evidence of periodic chain reaction at Fukushima Unit 1 from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Untitled from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Update on Fukushima: Discussion of High Level Radiation Releases and the Previous "Worse Case Senario" Planned for by The Indust from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Update on Fukushima: Discovery of Plutonium Leakage and Highly Radioactive Water from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Fukushima Update: Gundersen Discusses Various Types of Radiation Experienced at Fukushima from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Untitled from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
114N29 2011 Japan Fish Contamination+Japan Plant Operator Says It Has Contained at Least One Leak April 6, 2011 Boston Herald News.pdf
Japan Nuclear Crisis The Dangers of Radiation
Global Research TV
(Japan Nuclear Disaster: March 11, 2011)
THE GREATEST PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD THE WORLD HAS EVER WITNESSED.
Take notice of what Helen Caldicott is saying about the dire consequences for 'all of us' over the next few decades from the near-destruction of the FUKUSHIMA DAICHI PLUTONIUM-ENRICHED NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. Excerpt recorded at the press conference "The Dangers Of Nuclear War" in Montreal, Canada, in March 18th, 2011
United States Department of Energy - Power Point Presentation - Radiological Assessment
Radiation Monitoring Data From Japan Fukushima Area April 18, 2011
(Note that this Assessment is Dosed Based - Radioactive Particles Continue to Release Radioactivity for Varying Periods of Time-The Dose-Based Methodology is for one-time exposures, such as a dental X-Ray. Therefore, this assessment is not accurate for the type of radioactive particulate exposures that will be present over a long period of time.)
MSNBC Video June 8, 2011 - Update on Meltdowns in Japan Nuclear Disaster.
New Jersey governor supports nuke plant in New Jersey while Japan continues to struggle with fallout.
Rachel Maddow reports on new bad news from Japan's earthquake damaged nuclear reactors Meltdowns+Radiation Exposure. New good news that Germany is planning to do away with all of its nuclear power.
MSNBC March 17, 2011 Video
'Recriticality' at nuke plant becomes focus of concern, debate
March 17: James Acton, physicist and associate in the Nuclear Policy Program At The Carnegie Endowment, talks with Rachel Maddow about the dispute within the scientific community about the risk of a total meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex and the likely effectiveness of new tactics to control the heat in damaged reactors.
MSNBC News March 24, 2011 Video Japan Nuclear Plant Still in Peril
Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, author of "Physics of the Future," talks with Rachel Maddow about the progress and dangers in the fight to stabilize Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility. Japan conflicting accounts. Quandry about uncontrolled Nuclear Reactors - Tons of Radioactive Seawater Salt-Problems. 90,000 thousand pounds of salt-preventing cooling water from cooling the nuclear fuel rods-explosions. Japan making up solutions as they go along...salt water should not be used. Hydrogen gas problems-no power problem as with power it could spark
explosions.
MSNBC March 14, 2011 Video - What is a Nuclear Meltdown?
Rachel Maddow explains the mechanics of what happens when a nuclear reactor has a meltdown, and talks with David Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer and director of the Nuclear Safety Project of the Union of Concerned Scientists, about how experts are reading signs from the compromised Japanese nuclear reactors to understand how close they are to meltdown. Zirconium Tubing Surrounds Nuclear Uranium Fuel. Produces Fission Chain Reaction to boil water for power. (Produces steam as a byproduct which is a greenhouse gas.)
Fuel rods are hot even when reactor shut down. If not underwater they will get too hot and meltdown occurs. When damaged they can melt down. Hydrogen gas is then produced and can explode. Japan: two hydrogen explosions occurred - Radioactive Iodine and Cesium were found in air tests-which means that the fuel rods were damaged. Steam was radioactive. Three reactors with problems - First two reactors had explosions now a third more serious blast more serious than first two from hydrogen.
Primary containment vessel may have been damaged or is leaking in any one of the six reactors. Pressure is dropping which suggests that gas is leaking. Seawater could leak out faster than replacing it-meaning radioactive water going into the ocean. Interesting Report.
MSNBC Report March 15, 2011 What is spent nuclear fuel?
Rachel Maddow explains the process of dealing with spent nuclear reactor fuel rods and the dangers inherent in their storage. Frank Von Hippel, nuclear physicist and co-director of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University, discusses the perilous situation in Japan. Spent fuel rods needs constant cooling for 5-10 years-by circulating water- if no water or power-lots of trouble.
They need constant attention and to be underwater. Greater source of radiation leak because there are more rods than in active reactor. The spent fuel pools are not located in a containment vessel-in Japan they are located on top of reactor with outer containment walls...water levels have been dropping at these spent fuel pools. Radiation being released into the air from damaged fuel rods. (Japan-large holes in the walls as well as roof leaking radiation.) Everyone is guessing at this time. (Note Explanation of Zirconium.) Reactor Unit 4 is a problem with 5-6 problems escalating. Good Report! The crisis will go on a long time with serious consequences.
June 5, 2011 - Reuters News & Video
Japan - Record Radiation Levels at Fukushima
"...Highest-yet radiation levels are found near a steam vent in a reactor in Japan's stricken nuclear plant as work continues to prevent more radiation from leaking from other reactors. These images, taken from a robot at Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, show highly radioactive steam rising from a pipe in the ground. Tokyo Electric Power Company officials say the latest readings, taken from inside reactor number one, are the highest recorded since a tsunami hit on March 11. At a maximum level of 4000 milliseverts per hour, a worker inside could die if exposed for more than an hour. Months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami Japan, the company is still struggling to contain radioactive leaks from the plant. At reactor number two, fire trucks have been brought in to spray a dust-inhibitor over the walls to prevent loose radioactive particles from blowing in the wind..." (Sunita Rappai, Reuters)
June 17, 2011 - Dr. Helen Caldicott Radio Program
This week, Dr. Caldicott has an in-depth conversation with Arnold Gundersen, energy advisor with Fairewinds Associates Inc. and a former nuclear engineer. They discuss the present situation in Fukushima, where three nuclear power plants have melted down, and the continuing effects of the disaster on Japan and the rest of the world. For background, read the June 16, 2011 article, Fukushima: It’s Much Worse Than You Think: Scientific experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public, in which Gundersen states that “Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind.”
Also check out The Big Fukushima Lie Flies High, Is a Rise in Infant Deaths in the Pacific Northwest Due to Fukushima? and Are We on the Brink of Burying Nuke Power Forever? Listen to an earlier If You Love This Planet interview with Gundersen here. The last 20 minutes of the show feature part of Dr. Caldicott’s April 9 speech at a recent Chernobyl conference sponsored by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in Berlin. She covers the implications of the unprecedented Fukushima accident and the wide-ranging and long-lasting health effects of nuclear radiation. Her remarks are presented to an audience which included many physicians and scientists. As background for this lecture excerpt, read Dr. Caldicott’s April 30 opinion piece in The New York Times, Unsafe at Any Dose. And read her book, Nuclear Power is Not the Answer.
July 1, 2011 - CNN Special Report AC360
KTH Nuclear Cover-up in Japan after March 11, 2011 - Meltdowns
Editor's note: CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes a close look at how the Japanese government has handled the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
DOWNLOAD MP3 AUDIO of this report
Welcome. This is James Corbett of The Corbett Report with your Sunday Update from the Centre for Research on Globalization at globalresearch.ca on this 3rd day of July, 2011. And now for the real news.
In addition to the risk of the nuclear waste burning up in the fire and sending radioactive materials into the atmosphere, Joni Arends of the Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety has pointed out that the fire could stir up the nuclear-contaminated soil on lab property where nuclear experiments have long been conducted. In either event, harmful radiation could pass into the jet stream to be distributed across the United States and beyond.
As a recent report from the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability documented, the site has been the disposal ground for some 18 million cubic feet of radioactive and chemical solid wastes since 1943, as well as 899,000 curies of so-called transuranic waste, including plutonium. Liquid wastes from the plant were discharged into the canyons, initially with little treatment whatsoever.
Winds have now shifted the fire away from the facility and initial air samples from the inferno have indicated there has so far been no catastrophic release of radiation in the area, but it is unclear why no basic precautions were in place to secure the nuclear waste at the facility prior to the fire or what such measures, if any, are being contemplated in the wake of this emergency.
Also last Sunday, flood waters from the Missouri River reached the containment buildings of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station. A levee protecting the site’s electrical transformers gave way and the plant was forced to switch on emergency generators in order to continue cooling the nuclear reactor.
Although officials are maintaining that the plant is still functioning and is not in meltdown, the incident has raised serious questions about the facility and its preparedness for just such an event. Just last October, nuclear regulators warned that the Fort Calhoun plant “failed to maintain procedures for combating a significant flood” and newly released documents reveal workers were still scrambling to plug holes where flood water could potentially get into the facility as late as last week.
It is unclear what, if any, punitive actions the plant’s operator will face for their negligence, or if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is even concerned. Commission director Gregory Jaczsko said last week that “all the plants in the U.S. have been been designed to deal with historically the largest possible floods,” seeming to imply that the Fort Calhoun situation was not dangerous by definition and that the NRC had full faith in the plant despite its documented safety violations.
This is in line with an AP investigation last month that found that American federal nuclear regulators have been working with the nuclear industry to ensure that reactors passed safety inspections by repeatedly lowering safety standards for the plants or failing to enforce existing standards. The investigation showed that a myriad of documented problems at nuclear power plants across the country, from failed cables and busted seals to broken nozzles, dented containers and rusty pipes, were routinely resolved by claiming that existing safety standards were too conservative. When valves were found to be leaking, for instance, the standards were simply changed to allow for more leakage, in some cases 20 times the original limit.
Meanwhile in Japan, where three of the reactors at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been confirmed to have been in full meltdown since the very first days of the tsunami-induced disaster, the first series of health checks of area residents are already revealing suprising and troubling results about radiation exposure in the area. Tests of 15 Fukushima residents between the ages of 4 and 77 have revealed radioactive cesium and iodine in their urine.
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The tests also indicate that residents have been exposed to between 1 / 5 to 3 / 4 of their yearly allowable radiation dose in just two months.
Now, documents are beginning to surface confirming what many have been alleging since the start of this crisis: that governments the world over have been conspiring with the nuclear energy industry to downplay the significance and ramifications of the Fukushima disaster.
Just last week, emails released under the Freedom of Inforrmation Act show how the Departments of Business and Energy in the UK government were coordinating their response to the Japanese disaster with companies like EDF Energy, Areva and Westinghouse to ensure the accident did not interfere with plans to build a new generation of nuclear power plants in Britain.
The emails reveal how the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills was emailing the nuclear firms on the 13th of March, as the crisis was still unfolding, to assure them that “radiation released has been controlled – the reactor has been protected,” a surprisingly definitive description of the events at Fukushima that have now been shown to have been categorically wrong, as reactor 1 had in fact melted down in the first 16 hours of the disaster, with 2 and 3 also melting down in the following days.
They also show how the BIS intimated that comments from the nuclear industry would be worked into the departments briefs to ministers and government statements: “We need to all be working from the same material to get the message through to the media and the public.”
In other radiation-related news, an entirely different set of emails among government officials obtained under the Freedom of Information Act last week reveal that the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the very same organization that has refused to release the data that its model for the collapse of World Trade Center 7 was based on because it would “jeopardize public safety,” has accused the Department of Homeland Security of lying about its findings on the safety of the full body scanners being used in airport screening by the TSA.
The email reveals how NIST rebuked DHS head Janet Napolitano for claiming in a USA Today op-ed that:
“AIT machines are safe, efficient, and protect passenger privacy. They have been independently evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who have all affirmed their safety.”
According to the email, however, NIST was angry at this mischaracterization of their work, pointing out that “NIST does not do product testing. [And] NIST did not test AIT machines for safety.”
As it turns out, not only did Napolitano lie about NIST’s certification of the scanner safety, but she also lied about the Johns Hopkins backing of her position. An internal document produced by Johns Hopkins for the DHS shows that far from “affirming the safety” of the technology, the University in fact warned that the scanners as designed produces an area around the machine that exceeds the general public dose limit for radiation exposure.
Napolitano’s op-ed was widely criticized at the time because Dr. Michael Love, the head of an X-ray lab at Johns Hopkins warned just two days before the op-ed was published that “statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays.”
KING5.com - GARY CHITTIM / KING 5 News - Seattle, WA - Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:44 PM
Video + News Report - SEATTLE -- A Seattle nuclear watchdog group is accusing the federal government of
failing to keep the public informed of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster..."The level that was
detected on March 24 was 41 times the drinking water standard," said Gerry Pollet from Heart of America
Northwest. He reviewed Iodine 131 numbers released by the Environmental Protection Agency last spring.
"Our government said no health levels, no health levels were exceeded. When in fact the rain water in the
Northwest is reaching levels 130 times the drinking water standards," said Pollet. Elevated rain water
samples were collected in Portland, Olympia and Boise -- which had the highest..."
Ex Japanese Nuclear Regulator Blames Radioactive Animal Feed on "Black Rain" from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
July 19, 2011 - Fairewinds Associates - Ernie Gundersen
While many radioactive cattle have been discovered large distances from Fukushima, what is more important is where their feed is coming from. "It's not only about the radioactive cattle in Fukushima Prefecture; its also about the radioactive straw the cattle eat that was grown elsewhere". Straw found 45 miles from Fukushima is highly contaminated with radioactive cesium, which is an indication that radiation has contaminated large portions of Northern Japan. More than half a million disintegrations per second in a kilogram of straw are comparable to Chernobyl levels. This proves that the American Nuclear Regulatory Commission was correct when it told Americans to evacuate beyond 50 miles and that the Japanese should have done the same. An Ex-Secretariat of Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission blames this contamination on "Black Rain". Rather than minimize the information the Japanese people receive, Gundersen suggests minimizing their radiation exposure."
CNN News - Japan Anniversary of Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown
Anderson Cooper 360 - March 10, 2012 Video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18239107
BBC News - May 28, 2012 - "...Bluefin tuna record Fukushima radioactivity
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News-Pacific Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California have been found to have radioactive contamination from last year's Fukushima nuclear accident. The fish would have picked up the pollution while swimming in Japanese waters, before then moving to the far side of the ocean..." Video+Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18239107
ABC News - By Lee Ferran - Article & Video
March 16, 2011
"...Months after a senior Japanese International Atomic Energy Agency official urged better safety procedures at nuclear plants around the world to "avoid another Chernobyl," another IAEA official said that earthquakes presented a "serious problem" to nuclear plant safety, according to a recently released U.S. State Department cable.
The official, who is only identified as "the IAEA presenter" at the 2008 G8 Nuclear Safety and Security Group meeting, said that some recent earthquakes "exceeded the design basis for some nuclear plants" and complained that safety guides for such plants had only been revised three times in more than three decades. The IAEA had sent officials to Japan in late 2008 to study the effects of an earthquake on some reactors, said the cable, which was posted on the website of the British newspaper The Telegraph..."