Fukushima: Study Finds Wide Variation In Radiation Levels Within No-Entry Zone

A study of radiation levels within a 20-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant revealed contamination levels in many locations would not currently pose a major threat to human health.

The research, conducted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Fukushima plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), assumed that current radiation levels would be unchanged for a year and that exposed individuals would remain outdoors for eight hours a day.

Of 128 locations within the 20-km zone, researchers projected that annual radiation exposure would exceed 100 millisieverts in only 17 places.

According to the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), annual radiation exposure exceeding 100 millisieverts poses dangers to health. Annual exposure exceeding 500 millisieverts is associated with a drop in lymphocyte cells in the blood.

The worst-contaminated location had a radiation level that might expose individuals to more than 500 millisieverts in a year. But nearly half of the sample locations had radiation levels below the 20 millisieverts standard used by the central government as a guideline for issuing evacuation orders.

Read moreFukushima: Study Finds Wide Variation In Radiation Levels Within No-Entry Zone

Fukushima: High Resolution Photos Prove (MOX) Reactor No. 3 Core And Spent Fuel Pool Exploded!!!

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This comment was left by a reader Stuart Davies, we wanted to pass it along to all of our readers

The residents of Japan have good cause to mistrust the media, TEPCO officials, and members of their government when it comes to assurances about radiation levels, plutonium dispersal, and the related health risks.

Americans also have good cause to mistrust these same sort of assurances issued to American residents. The following is a letter I just sent to the Union of Concerned Scientists detailing evidence that the Fukushima unit 3 Reactor was the source of the massive hydrogen explosion a few weeks ago…. and the further implications of this easily verifiable fact.

Follow the links and examine the aerial photos and the diagram of the reactor building. If you agree with my conclusions after looking at the evidence with your own eyes (and I’m sure that most anyone will), please contact the UCS and any media sources of your choice to encourage them to look into this.

Subject:
high resolution photographic proof that the reactor core exploded at Fukushima unit 3

I was looking at the high resolution photos taken of the Fukushima
complex a few weeks ago, and looking at the shots of unit 3 in particular (the 2nd and 5th photos show it best) – because it was the one using the MOX fuel and was also the one most severely damaged by the hydrogen explosions. I’m sure you guys at UCS have already seen these shots, the link and photos are below:

A few days later I came across an article on the disaster over there that had a good cut away diagram of the reactor buildings:

(Click on image to enlarge.)

I was struck by the location of the spent fuel pool on the third floor. (The spent fuel pool in the diagram is in the upper right corner of the building to the right of the top of the reactor, below the yellow beam, which is below the large orange girders.Part of the pool is cut away in the diagram, it appears to extend most of the way across about half of the building on the third floor) I went back to the site with the aerial photos and confirmed that the third floor was pretty much entirely obliterated in the explosion. The spent fuel pool is gone… see for yourself.

Today I had another look at the diagram, and noticed something else quite significant that I had missed before. I realized that the top of the primary containment vessel was flush with the floor level of the 4th floor, and that the top of the reactor itself was in the space between the 3rd and 4th floors, partially surrounded by the spent fuel pool.

Look at those photos again, particularly the 5th shot. At the top of the photo you see the skeletal remnants of the wall of the 3rd and 4th floors. It is easy to see the floor level of the third floor – there are two massive steam pipes running behind and below the building…the lower edge of the lower pipe is almost perfectly aligned with the floor level of the 3rd floor. Follow the floor line of the third floor down down from that back wall along the right side of the building, then across the front side of the building near the bottom of the photo. That shows you the floor level of the 3rd floor very clearly, right? There is nothing but air remaining above that level, except for a bit of roof debris which you can see through. The top of the primary containment vessel, as well as the top of the reactor itself, is simply GONE.

Even to a layperson, it is obvious that this means that the huge hydrogen explosion at unit 3 must have occurred in the reactor itself, and that the entire top of the reactor containment vessel was obliterated, ejecting the contents of the core – as well as the spent fuel pool- into the atmosphere.

This means, obviously, that significant quantities of plutonium were released, and that the release of radiation from unit 3 alone must be many times higher than has been admitted for the entire
complex – Chernobyl pales in comparison.

Read moreFukushima: High Resolution Photos Prove (MOX) Reactor No. 3 Core And Spent Fuel Pool Exploded!!!

TEPCO Discloses Fukushima Radiation Map – 300 Millisieverts Per Hour Detected In Debris At Nearby Mountainside


(Watch the video here.)

Tokyo Electric Power Company has disclosed a map of radiation levels at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The utility plans to urgently remove radioactive rubble, and the map will help to protect workers from unnecessary exposure to radiation.

TEPCO began making the map in late March, and has posted copies in the plant’s buildings.

The map shows radiation levels that controllers measured around the first 4 reactors before the start of the working day.

Radiation levels around the Number 3 reactor building, which was damaged by a powerful hydrogen explosion, are higher than in other locations, and 300 millisieverts per hour of radiation was detected in debris on a nearby mountainside.

Read moreTEPCO Discloses Fukushima Radiation Map – 300 Millisieverts Per Hour Detected In Debris At Nearby Mountainside

TEPCO: Deadly Radioactive Concrete Pieces Found Near (MOX) Reactor No. 3


Watch the video here.

The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says that concrete debris emitting a high level of radiation has been found near the Number 3 reactor.

Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says its workers detected radioactivity of 900 millisieverts per hour being emitted from a 30-by-30 centimeter concrete fragment, 5 centimeters thick, on Wednesday.

Read moreTEPCO: Deadly Radioactive Concrete Pieces Found Near (MOX) Reactor No. 3

Prince William and Kate Middleton Royal Wedding Date Is On The Wedding Anniversary Of Adolf Hitler And Eva Braun


Prince William and Kate Middleton (pic: Reuters)

Prince William and Kate Middleton royal wedding date coincides with Hitler’s wedding anniversary – and more events in history that happened on April 29th (Mirror):

The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be a joyous occasion but it also marks the 66th anniversary of the bizarre and macabre union of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun as the Third Reich collapsed.

The Nazi dictator married his long-time mistress deep in the Fuehrer’s bunker below Berlin as the Russians closed in. The pair committed suicide together the next day.

Related information:

UK Government Orders Information Blackout On EU Farming Subsidies For The Royal Family

The Royal Family To Be Granted Absolute Protection From Public Scrutiny (Here are some of the stories they didn’t want us to know.)

Queen Tried to Use State Poverty Fund to Heat Buckingham Palace

History:

The British Royals since 1714 are coming from the House of Hannover and the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The Royals are ‘really’ Germans.

The royal family’s official name, or lack thereof, became a problem during World War I, when people began to mutter that Saxe-Coburg-Gotha sounded far too German. King George V and his family needed a new English-sounding name. After considering everything from Plantagenet to Tudor-Stuart to simply England, the king and his advisors chose the name Windsor.

President Obama on Bradley Manning: ‘He Broke the Law.’ So Much for that Trial?

President Barack Obama made stunning accusations about accused Wikileaks whistleblower PFC Bradley Manning, directly asserting that Manning “broke the law.” Apparently the President of the United States of America and a self-described Constitutional scholar does not care that Manning has yet to be tried or convicted for any crime.

In a discussion yesterday with Logan Price, a Bradley Manning supporter who was part of a group of activists who sang a song during the President’s San Francisco fundraiser, President Obama flatly stated that Bradley Manning “dumped” documents and that “he broke the law.” A rough transcript follows, provided by UK Friends of Bradley Manning:

OBAMA: So people can have philosophical views [about Bradley Manning] but I can’t conduct diplomacy on an open source [basis]… That’s not how the world works.

And if you’re in the military… And I have to abide by certain rules of classified information. If I were to release material I weren’t allowed to, I’d be breaking the law.

We’re a nation of laws! We don’t let individuals make their own decisions about how the laws operate. He broke the law.

[Q: Didn’t he release evidence of war crimes?]

OBAMA: What he did was he dumped

[Q: Isn’t that just the same thing as what Daniel Ellsberg did?]

OBAMA: No it wasn’t the same thing. Ellsberg’s material wasn’t classified in the same way.

This is the President of the United States speaking about a US military soldier detained for almost a year on charges of leaking classified (but not top secret, the level of files released by Ellsberg) documents. Manning’s lawyer is considering considered (corrected: his transfer made the writ moot) filing a writ of habeus corpus for the length of time and totality of abuse suffered by Manning while in military custody.

President Obama has already made up his mind. He thinks Manning “broke the law.” It’s no wonder he considered Manning’s abuse to “meet our basic standards” when he thinks Manning is already guilty.

This is vile.

Read morePresident Obama on Bradley Manning: ‘He Broke the Law.’ So Much for that Trial?

Sharks Dying in San Francisco Bay, Cause Unknown

Sharks are dying in San Francisco Bay, with volunteers having rescued and removed about a dozen dead and dying leopard sharks in small waterways in Redwood City over the past few days in what is rapidly becoming a common occurrence, an expert said.

Redwood City resident Catherine Greer and her 13-year-old son, Lorenzo, were the first to discover the dying sharks at a lagoon near Redwood Shores off Radio Road earlier this week.

Greer, an avid fisher, said what she saw upset her. “It looked like they were trying to beach themselves,” she said.

Read moreSharks Dying in San Francisco Bay, Cause Unknown

Radioactive Plutonium And Strontium From Fukushima Bombarding US West Coast Since March 18th (EPA RADnet Reports)

On Plutonium:

Dr. Helen Caldicott (Co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility):

You’ve bought the propaganda from the nuclear industry. They say it’s low-level radiation. That’s absolute rubbish. If you inhale a millionth of a gram of plutonium, the surrounding cells receive a very, very high dose. Most die within that area, because it’s an alpha emitter. The cells on the periphery remain viable. They mutate, and the regulatory genes are damaged. Years later, that person develops cancer. Now, that’s true for radioactive iodine, that goes to the thyroid; cesium-137, that goes to the brain and muscles; strontium-90 goes to bone, causing bone cancer and leukemia. It’s imperative that you understand internal emitters and radiation, and it’s not low level to the cells that are exposed. Radiobiology is imperative to understand these days.”

– Dr. Rima Laibow:

“Plutonium is the deadliest substance on the planet since 1 molecule of Plutonium in your body guarantees the development of cancer, according to radiation medicine experts.”


EPA RADnet Reports Show Plutonium in US since March 18th

We found a more complete RADnet dataset for various radioactive isotopes we had previously not encountered.

[…]

Recently while searching the EPA RADnet database for radiation reports, we found a link to the main database.  It included the RADNet monitoring data  for many isotopes not released in the public reports.

Notice that:

  • RADnet began monitoring for Plutonium from Day 1
  • Plutonium was found from Alaska. to San Francisco California. and down into Guam from 03/18/2011
  • Strontium was detected in the United States on 03/18/2011
  • Isotopes found not released in public reports Plutonium, Strontium and Cesium
  • What do the negative values mean in the results column?

Plutonium Results

Update 12:01 EST April, 22nd 2011

Here are the results for Plutonium.

All results were detected by actinides extraction chromatography as part of either the RadNet Radiation Network Alert or the Fukushima deployables.

To fit the data on the web page I have moved some redundant columns .

I removed the half-life column which the EPA results report as 24131 years for Plutonium-239 and for 87.75 years for Plutonium-238.

I have also removed the unit column as all amounts reported are pCi/m3 or picocuries per cubic meter.

CITY STATE COLLECT END RESULT DATE ANALYTE NAME AMOUNT
GUAM GU 3/19/2011 3/31/2011 Plutonium-239 0.000012
SAIPAN CNMI 3/21/2011 3/31/2011 Plutonium-239 0.000009
SAN FRANCISCO CA 3/18/2011 3/24/2011 Plutonium-239 0.0000065
NOME AK 3/20/2011 3/31/2011 Plutonium-238 0.0000035
SEATTLE WA 3/18/2011 3/24/2011 Plutonium-238 0.0000025
RIVERSIDE CA 3/15/2011 3/24/2011 Plutonium-238 0.0000013
RIVERSIDE CA 3/15/2011 3/24/2011 Plutonium-239 0.0000013
SAIPAN CNMI 3/21/2011 3/31/2011 Plutonium-238 0
SAIPAN CNMI 3/24/2011 3/31/2011 Plutonium-239 0
NOME AK 3/20/2011 3/31/2011 Plutonium-239 0
SEATTLE WA 3/18/2011 3/24/2011 Plutonium-239 -0.0000013
ANAHEIM CA 3/15/2011 3/24/2011 Plutonium-239 -0.0000015
DUTCH HARBOR AK 3/19/2011 3/31/2011 Plutonium-239 -0.0000023
ANAHEIM CA 3/15/2011 3/24/2011 Plutonium-238 -0.000003
SAN FRANCISCO CA 3/18/2011 3/24/2011 Plutonium-238 -0.0000037
KAUAI HI 3/21/2011 3/31/2011 Plutonium-239 -0.0000043
DUTCH HARBOR AK 3/19/2011 3/31/2011 Plutonium-238 -0.0000069
SAIPAN CNMI 3/24/2011 3/31/2011 Plutonium-238 -0.000008
GUAM GU 3/19/2011 3/31/2011 Plutonium-238 -0.000008

Strontium Results

Update 1:07 EST April, 22nd 2011

Strontium-89 and 90 were detected in Environmental Matrices.

Again the half-life column has been removed to fit the data on this page. The EPA reports the half-life for the Strontium-89 is 50.55 years and the half-life for the Strontium-90 at 28.6 years.

All Strotium detections were from the RadNet Radiation Alert Network.

Agian all units reported are pCi/m3 or picocuries per cubic meter.

CITY STATE COLLECT END RESULT DATE ANALYTE NAME AMOUNT
ANAHEIM CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-89 0.0008
ANAHEIM CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-89 0.0008
ANAHEIM CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-89 0.0008
ANAHEIM CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-89 0.0008
RIVERSIDE CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-90 0.00011
RIVERSIDE CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-90 0.00011
RIVERSIDE CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-90 0.00011
RIVERSIDE CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-90 0.00011
RIVERSIDE CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-89 -0.00013
RIVERSIDE CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-89 -0.00013
RIVERSIDE CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-89 -0.00013
RIVERSIDE CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-89 -0.00013
ANAHEIM CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-90 -0.00036
ANAHEIM CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-90 -0.00036
ANAHEIM CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-90 -0.00036
ANAHEIM CA 3/18/2011 3/18/2011 Strontium-90 -0.00036

Cesium Results

Update 1:29 EST April, 22nd 2011

I will be posting the cesium results in 3 seperate tables – Air, Milk and Rain so the data can be fit here.

Read moreRadioactive Plutonium And Strontium From Fukushima Bombarding US West Coast Since March 18th (EPA RADnet Reports)

Alert: North Carolina – Radiation Test – 124CPM At Grandfather Mountain!!! (4/24/2011)


Added: 24.04.2011

Measured at the Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

coordinates: 36 5 39 N , 81 49 59 W

A ten minute measurement made at 5,299 ft. Just southwest of the Grandfather mountain visitor center.

CPM over 10 minutes reached a high reading of 1240 = 124 CPM.

Levels over 100 are of concern, and considered HIGH.

Some have raised the question of “radon” coming out of the rocks..

IF THIS AMOUNT OF RADON WAS COMING OUT OF THE ROCKS .. everyone in the park would be evacuated. Going back to the same place tomorrow to measure WITHOUT being “near” any rocks to settle ANY skeptics, and will compare the two videos.

Read moreAlert: North Carolina – Radiation Test – 124CPM At Grandfather Mountain!!! (4/24/2011)

FUKUSHIMA = 2,000 Atomic Bombs (Veterans Today)

Killer Contamination Spreads Worldwide Without Opposition


Beautiful, eh? France detonated this nuke in the South Pacific 7-3-70 Scientific American Sygma

(San Francisco) – Radioactive contamination equivalent to the Fukushima, Japan disaster in terms of the hated “Mushroom Cloud” Atomic Bombs is two thousand (2,000) 500 Kiloton Atomic Bombs.* Each 500kt Atomic Bomb is 33 times bigger than the American Bomb that destroyed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

President G. Bush often referred to the well known “mushroom cloud” as a terrorist signature. Nope, just standard operating procedure (SOP) in the stationary nuclear weapons biz-ness, otherwise known worldwide as “Nuclear Power Reactors.” Except, in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Weapons, the biggest ever, the “mushroom” portion is invisible and has engulfed the whole world with 70 Billion Radioactive Lethal Doses* – so far. There’s more on the way.

Truly, it is as if the entire world is At War! The dreaded all-out nuclear war that would happen if Russia or the United Stated accidentally “Pressed The Button” is going on right now; it is a done deal. Imagine that! The same thing as detonating 2,000 big Atomic Bombs and not even one “BOOM!” Not a shot fired, yet we could all die!

No giant forest fires, no burning cities creating their own hellish, uncompromising firestorms. None of that; but, every bit of the radioactive contamination such an Atomic World War would create; and probably more. For unbelievably, there are more Japanese reactors about to blow. It’s a chain reaction.


Yea, this is what VeteransToday is talking about, radiation from 2,000 kill-you-dead nukes.

It remains a thinly veiled secret of the nuclear powers that it only takes about 300 One Megaton nukes to target the entire world. Typically, the world’s nuclear weapons arsenals were originally built with a 350 year shelf life for major components. In fact, the radioactive materials are “safer” locked away securely in  heavily guarded Atomic Bombs, than in loosely managed reactors run by utility companies for supposedly “peace time” purposes. The worldwide nuclear war we’ve got is not the war we feared.

For now, we all wait and try to avoid the 10 radioactive particles set free for each of us on Earth, from Fukushima’s triggered stationary nuclear weapons. Feel free to figure out how to dodge lethal, airborne particles you can’t see.

So far, the Fukushima disaster for Planet Earth is by no means resolved. The Powers That Be at TEPCO (the Tokyo Electric Power Company) and General Electric, makers of the reactors that created this killer, worldwide, invisible mist, say that they might get a handle on the situation in “six to nine months.[1]”

Read moreFUKUSHIMA = 2,000 Atomic Bombs (Veterans Today)

Homeland Security Black Helicopters Seen In Drill Over Downtown Miami (Video)

Must -see:

–  Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory: Police State (And FEMA Concentration Camps)


Miami-Dade County seems to have become a staging ground in preparation of a militarized police state.  The latest event was reported on by The Miami-Herald when a scene right out of the movie Conspiracy Theory led residents to start Tweeting about “pitch black” military helicopters dropping men onto buildings, including the Bank of America building, beginning around 9:15 p.m. as witnessed in the video below:

Miami-Dade County already has become infamous among lovers of freedom for being the first local police department to order surveillance drones.  Although the purpose of this latest drill was not immediately released, residents, local police, and the U.S. Coast Guard were kept in the dark about the arrival of the Southeast Regional Domestic Security Task Force.  This is yet another example of the ramping-up of Homeland Security activity in urban centers around the country, which has added to reports that preparations are being made for Martial Law and FEMA camp internment of American citizens.

Read moreHomeland Security Black Helicopters Seen In Drill Over Downtown Miami (Video)

Dr. Helen Caldicott On The Japan Nuclear Disaster – The Truth MSM Won’t Tell You! (Video)

Dr. Helen Caldicott is co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Added: 18.04.2011

Related info:

Dr. Steven Wing And Chief Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen Discuss Global Radiation Exposure and Consequences: There Is No Safe Dose of Radiation

UC Santa Cruz Nuclear Expert Daniel Hirsch: ‘Every Amount of Radiation Exposure Increases Your Risk of Cancer.’ ‘There Is No Safe Level of Radiation.’

Dr. Helen Caldicott: How Nuclear Apologists Mislead The World Over Radiation

Dr. Brian Moench: There Is No ‘Safe’ Exposure To Radiation

Dr. Peter Karamoskos: Don’t Be Fooled By A Never-Ending Cabal Of Paid Industry Scientific ”Consultants’ – Radiation Is Bad And Causes Cancer

Are There Safe Levels of Radiation? How Much Radiation Is Safe? (Must-read!!!!!)

The Propaganda From The Government And The Nuclear Industry About Low-Level Radiation Is Absolute Rubbish

US Fears Overdue ‘Megathrust’ Earthquake Will Trigger Tsunami And Decimate Unprepared Cities On North-West Coast

  • Cascadia fault line has lain dormant for 300 years
  • Eruption could trigger tsunami, devastating seaside communities – and reach as far as Japan


Disaster zone? A huge ‘megathrust’ earthquake could spark a tsunami and devastate the U.S. northwest if the Juan de Fuca plate is forced further under the North America plate on the Cascadia fault line

The north-west coast of the U.S. could be devastated by a huge movement of undersea plates known as a ‘megathrust’ earthquake, scientists say.

A review of the dangers posed by the Juan de Fuca plate released in the wake of the Japanese quake has raised fears that the Pacific seaboard could be similarly ravaged.

The horrifying possibilities have been brought to light by data researched by the Active Tectonics and Seafloor Mapping Laboratory at Oregon State University.

And the results are shown in a documentary, Megaquake: The Hour That Shook Japan, which is set to go out on the Discovery Channel in the UK this weekend.

The huge March 11 earthquake that sparked the tsunami off the coast of Japan may have been a ‘megathrust’ quake and now researchers fear the Cascadia fault line 50 miles off the U.S. coast could rupture and cause a quake and subsequent tsunami.

The average time along that fault between massive quakes above magnitude 8 is 240 years, said The Times, and the last ‘megaquake’ was just over 300 years ago.

Read moreUS Fears Overdue ‘Megathrust’ Earthquake Will Trigger Tsunami And Decimate Unprepared Cities On North-West Coast

Adolf Hitler, Silver And COMEX

It has been done before (here, here and here) and it certainly will be done again. In the meantime, here is Adolf, reprising in his now traditional role as Jamie Dimon, learning that the Comex is out of silver.


Added: 20.04.2011

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/22/2011 08:52 -0400

Source: ZeroHedge

Blue Hill Becomes Third Town in Maine to Pass Food Freedom Law

(NaturalNews) Within the past several months, numerous towns in Maine, and one in Vermont, have proposed or enacted food sovereignty laws that declare, plainly, that the federal government has no business telling citizens what food products they can and cannot buy or sell locally. Representing the third town to successfully pass such an ordinance, Blue Hill, Maine, recently adopted a local food and self-governance bill that asserts the freedom of local citizens to choose their own food.

In a near-unanimous vote, Blue Hill residents successfully voted to pass the food freedom ordinance on April 2. Besides declaring sovereignty from government intrusion on local food policy, the bill exempts all direct sales of food from having to comply with state and federal license and inspection requirement. In other words, local residents who grow and sell produce, for instance, will not be subjected to the tedious and expensive bureaucratic red tape that rightfully applies to factory farm operations.

“[It] is a huge milestone in the struggle to protect the rights, not only of farmers to sell their products, but also of all citizens to eat the food of their choice,” John Gandy, a local resident of Blue Hill and Master for the Halcyon Grange, is quoted as saying in the Activist Post. “It is time citizens start defending our rights against big government and big business.”

Read moreBlue Hill Becomes Third Town in Maine to Pass Food Freedom Law

iPhones And Android ‘Tracking’ Phones Building Vast Databases For Google And Apple – How to See the Secret Tracking Data in Your iPhone

iPhones and Android ‘tracking’ phones building vast databases for Google and Apple (Guardian):

Apple and Google are using smartphones running their software to build gigantic databases for location-based services, according to new research following the Guardian’s revelations that iPhones and devices running Android collect location data about owners’ movements.

Samy Kamkar, a hacker and researcher, has shown that Android phones, which run on software written by Google, collect the location data every few seconds and store it in a local file, but also transmit it to Google several times an hour.

How to See the Secret Tracking Data in Your iPhone (PC Mag):

Coverage of the iPhone tracking “feature” has ranged from concern to outrage. “I don’t know about you, but the fact that this feature exists on an iPhone is a deal-killer,” wrote PCMag Columnist John Dvorak, shortly after news broke. PCMag Executive Editor Dan Costa drew a softer line, writing, “Apple may not be actively tracking you, but it did turn your phone into a tracking device without telling you.”

Apple, Google Collect User Data (Wall Street Journal):

Apple Inc.’s iPhones and Google Inc.’s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal—intensifying concerns over privacy and the widening trade in personal data.

Google and Apple are gathering location information as part of their race to build massive databases capable of pinpointing people’s locations via their cellphones. These databases could help them tap the $2.9 billion market for location-based services—expected to rise to $8.3 billion in 2014, according to research firm Gartner Inc.

In the case of Google, according to new research by security analyst Samy Kamkar, an HTC Android phone collected its location every few seconds and transmitted the data to Google at least several times an hour. It also transmitted the name, location and signal strength of any nearby Wi-Fi networks, as well as a unique phone identifier.

Google declined to comment on the findings.

Read moreiPhones And Android ‘Tracking’ Phones Building Vast Databases For Google And Apple – How to See the Secret Tracking Data in Your iPhone

Japan Gov. Announces Expansion of Evacuation Zone, 5 More Municipalities Must Evacuate

Evacuation area officially expanded


Watch the video here.

The Japanese government has announced the official expansion of the evacuation zone around the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to selected areas beyond the existing 20-kilometer radius. Residents of the new areas are being asked to evacuate by the end of May.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said on Friday that the government made the designation since residents there could be exposed to cumulative radiation levels of 20 millisieverts or more per year if they stay.

The 5 new municipalities are located to the northwest of the plant and are more than 20 kilometers from it.

Edano said that due to the possible impact on residents’ heath, the government is now urging them to evacuate within about a month.

Read moreJapan Gov. Announces Expansion of Evacuation Zone, 5 More Municipalities Must Evacuate

Georgia: Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down On Its Own

ATLANTA — A nuclear reactor at Plant Vogtle in eastern Georgia has been taken out of service until authorities determine why it unexpectedly shut down.

The Atlanta-based Southern Co. reported Thursday that the Unit 1 reactor at Plant Vogtle automatically shut down Wednesday evening. Officials say the shutdown procedure, called a scram, was completed without incident.

Read moreGeorgia: Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down On Its Own

IMPORTANT: Radiation And Jet Stream Forecast UPDATE – Total Amounts Deposited

Related info:

RADIATION FALLOUT UPDATE: Asia, USA, Canada Receiving HIGH-Mid Levels

URGENT: HIGH-Mid Levels Of Cesium-137 Over The US, Canada – Radiation And Jetstream Forecast (4/13/2011)



Added: 21.04.2011

ALL LINKS BELOW :

I have held off on a forecast update until I could at least verify one source and compare it .. I have since decided to drop the NILU forecasts for the time being, until we can see why the “hidden” cesium forecast was buried— see my previous video uploads on my channel for more details.

Read moreIMPORTANT: Radiation And Jet Stream Forecast UPDATE – Total Amounts Deposited

Japan Gov. Raises Maximum Permissible Level For Nuclear Plant Workers From 100 To 250 Millisieverts Per Year – It’s Dead Simple!

Related info:

FT guide to radiation (Financial Times):

100 mSv per year – lowest level at which any increase in cancer risk is clearly evident

And even that is completely BS!

Dr. Steven Wing And Chief Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen Discuss Global Radiation Exposure and Consequences: There Is No Safe Dose of Radiation

UC Santa Cruz Nuclear Expert Daniel Hirsch: ‘Every Amount of Radiation Exposure Increases Your Risk of Cancer.’ ‘There Is No Safe Level of Radiation.’

Dr. Helen Caldicott: How Nuclear Apologists Mislead The World Over Radiation

Dr. Brian Moench: There Is No ‘Safe’ Exposure To Radiation

Dr. Peter Karamoskos: Don’t Be Fooled By A Never-Ending Cabal Of Paid Industry Scientific ”Consultants’ – Radiation Is Bad And Causes Cancer

Are There Safe Levels of Radiation? How Much Radiation Is Safe? (Must-read!!!!!)

The Propaganda From The Government And The Nuclear Industry About Low-Level Radiation Is Absolute Rubbish


Workers at nuke plant complain about handling of radiation exposure data


In this April 18, 2011 photo released Wednesday, April 20, 2011 by Ehime University Medical Department Prof. Takeshi Tanigawa, workers, mostly employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co., engaged in operations at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, take rest inside a gymnasium that serves as their temporary dormitory at Fukushima Dai-ni Nuclear Power Plant in Naraha, 14 kilometers (9 miles) south of the former plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Ehime University Medical Department Prof. Takeshi Tanigawa)

Emergency workers, engaged in desperate efforts to contain the crippled nuclear reactors in northeastern Japan, are lashing out at the government and contractors for their inconsistent handling of data on their exposure to radiation.

Some emergency workers say the government has been inconsistently and vaguely applying a “special measure” governing the maximum permissible level of radiation workers are allowed to be exposed to, allowing some workers to avoid the requirement to register their radiation exposure.

Exposure to a total of 100 millisieverts is usually the permissible level for nuclear plant workers dealing with an emergency, but the government took a “special measure” to raise the limit to 250 millisieverts for the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.

“In the end, we are the workers who are exposed,” said an emergency worker. “If the radiation data is handled vaguely, workers may not be able to have proof of their exposure to radiation if they need to fight court battles,” said a person related to the nuclear industry.

A 30-year-old emergency worker from a subcontractor said he had been told by an official of a primary contractor shortly before joining in restoration work at the troubled nuclear power plant in late March that, “The dose of radiation you are going to be exposed to this time will not be on your radiation exposure registration record. So, don’t worry.”

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