Environment

Weirdest Day Of Fishing Ever!

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Four deer pulled from the icy waters of Stephens Passage, Alaska

– Weirdest Day Of Fishing Ever! (Sports And Stuff, August 14, 2011):

I’ve heard of salmon jumping into boats but…

Four deer were pulled from the icy waters of Stephens Passage, Alaska, by a group of locals on Tom Satre’s 62-foot charter vessel. Four juvenile Sitka black-tailed deer swam directly toward the boat.

Once the deer reached the boat, the four began to circle the boat, looking directly at the humans on board. Clearly, the bucks were distressed. With help, the typically skittish and absolutely wild animals came willingly onto the boat. Once onboard, they collapsed with exhaustion, shivering.

Here the rescued bucks rest on the back of Tom Satre’s boat, the Alaska Quest. All four deer were transported to Taku Harbour. Once the group reached the dock, the first buck that had been pulled from the water hopped onto the dock, looked back, then leapt into the harbour, swam to shore, and disappeared into the forest. After a bit of prodding and assistance from the humans, two others followed suit, but one deer needed more help..

Here he is being transported by Tom Satre:

Tom, Anna and Tim Satre help the last of the “button” bucks to its feet.
They did not know how long the deer had been in the icy waters or if there had been others who did not survive. The good Samaritans (humans) describe their experience as “one of those defining moments in life.” I’m sure it was for the deer, as well.

AND NOW: 1 MILLISIEVERT Per HOUR Radiation From A Truck In Iwaki City In Fukushima???

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– 1 Millisievert/hour Radiation from a Truck in Iwaki City in Fukushima?? (EX-SKF, August 17, 2011):

Well, you can’t watch the video below any more, as it has become “private” for some reason on Youtube. It was public. I have seen it at a members-only site.

The video was posted on this Japanese site on July 15, and it is supposed to be the radiation level measured on July 13 on a small truck parked in Iwaki City in Fukushima Prefecture, near Onahama.

Someone is holding the personal survey meter, standing, facing the street. The survey meter shows between 0.17 to 0.45 or so microsievert/hour. The person approaches a small white truck parked on a small parking lot at the side of the road. The survey meter quickly rises above 1 microsievert/hour, then 10, and 20 microsieverts/hour.

The highest level of radiation is measured on the truck bed. As the person slowly lowers the survey meter to the floor of the bed, it goes from several tens of microsieverts/hour to 100 microsieverts/hour, then rapidly rises to 150, 380, and before it reaches the bottom the meter goes overscale and shows just “8888”.

Read moreAND NOW: 1 MILLISIEVERT Per HOUR Radiation From A Truck In Iwaki City In Fukushima???

Texas Drought Loss Estimated At $5.2 Billion

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– Texas Drought Loss Estimated at $5.2 Billion (Bloomberg, Aug 17, 2011):

Agricultural losses from a drought in Texas have reached a record $5.2 billion and may worsen without more rain, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, a unit of Texas A&M University, said today in a report on its website.

The losses, which represent about 28 percent of the state’s average annual agricultural output in the past four years, exceed the previous record of $4.1 billion set during a drought in 2006, AgriLife said. October to July was the driest 10-month period on record. The estimated cost of the drought does not include the impact on vegetable production and nursery crops.

“This drought is ongoing,” David Anderson, an AgriLife livestock economist, said in the report. “Further losses will continue if rainfall does not come soon to establish this year’s winter-wheat crop and wheat grazing.”

Read moreTexas Drought Loss Estimated At $5.2 Billion

Fukushima Nuclear Plant Worker: No Steam Gushing From Cracks, But There Are Many 10-Plus SIEVERTS PER HOUR Locations

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– #Fukushima I Nuke Plant Worker: No Steam Gushing From Cracks, But There Are Many 10-Plus Sieverts/Hr Locations (EX-SKF, August 17, 2011):

The anonymous Fukushima I Nuke Plant worker whom I featured before several times tweets on the information, yet to be substantiated, related by an independent journalist Kota Kinoshita on his blog on August 15. Mr. Kinoshita related the information only because he had heard the similar information from his government source.

What is that information? That there is steam gushing out of cracks on the ground, and that there are 6 locations that exceed 10 sieverts/hr radiation.

Read moreFukushima Nuclear Plant Worker: No Steam Gushing From Cracks, But There Are Many 10-Plus SIEVERTS PER HOUR Locations

Californians Inhaled 360+ Radioactive Sulfur Atoms In Just One Day After Fukushima

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– Where’s That Radioactive Sulfur Now? Possibly In Your Pants (Forbes, August 16, 2011):

When the news broke yesterday that a previously unreported type of fallout from Fukushima—radioactive sulfur—had reached the United States in late March, nearly all mainstream media reports made the claim that it poses no threat to the health of Americans. But none of them explained where the radioactive sulfur went.

Read moreCalifornians Inhaled 360+ Radioactive Sulfur Atoms In Just One Day After Fukushima

Independent Scientist Leuren Moret: Japan, US, Canadian Governments Complicit In Covering Up Fukushima Radiation – ‘We Are Facing Total Extermination And Genocide’ – ‘We Are On Our Own’ (Video & Article)

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Before:

– Independent Scientist Leuren Moret: Nuclear Genocide Of Babies And Children In Japan, US, Canada Grows – Elitist Depopulation Agenda – Global Nuclear Holocaust

‘The Fukushima Disaster Is Going To Finish The Japanese’


YouTube Added: 15.08.2011

– Leuren Moret: Japan, U.S., Canadian governments complicit in radiation cover-up (Examiner, August 14, 2011):

Independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD (ABD) has declared that the governments of Japan, the U.S. and Canada are continuing in a concerted, lock-step program of complicit cover-up of dangerous radiation levels resulting from the Fukushima nuclear false flag event of March 11, 2011.

Ms. Moret’s statements are made in an ExopoliticsTV interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre released August 14, 2011.  Also made public is a court Declaration on the impacts and levels of Fukushima radiation by Dr. Chris Busby, Member of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology and the Ukraine Committee Physicians of Chernobyl.  Dr. Busby’s court Declaration, filed in a Japanese court case seeking to force the evacuation of more that 350,000 children from the Fukushima area, is set out at the end of this article in the public interest.

Japan, U.S., Canadian governments complicit

DOE/Japan – Misleading radiation surveys and maps.

Ms. Moret reveals that her research has uncovered that the misleading radiation surveys and maps released by the Japanese government purportedly of radiation levels from the Fukushima area were in fact documents originally authored and created by the U.S. Department of Energy and then passed secretly on to the government of Japan, which made them public as its own or released them jointly with the US government.

Ms. Moret states, “Challenging the official Japan/US government radiation surveys, the Japanese government television network NHK TV, released a documentary in April 2011, about independent scientists Dr. Shinzo Kimura (formerly Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare), Dr. Masaharu Okano (retired leading expert in Japan on environmental radiation),  and Dr. Keiji Imanaka (Kyoto Univ.) and others, who began on March 15, to make the first ever independent radiation survey after a major nuclear disaster.  Not only did this survey identify and measure very short half-life isotopes, never reported before following a nuclear disaster, but NHK TV immediately released it to the public.  On March 16, the day that Reactor Unit 2 exploded at Fukushima nuclear plant, Dr. Kimura took soil and air samples at the Tamura Municipal Junior High School 35 kilometers from the Fukushima plant.  He reported that a soil sample from a path used daily by students, was contaminated with 5,150,000 Bq/m2 of Iodine 131, as well as 9 other radionuclides.  Radiation in the air sample was 1.9-93 microSv/hr, more than 40 times higher than normal.  When they entered the 20 km exclusion zone, the radiation levels inside the car reached 300 microSv/hr.  They also reported that the Cesium contamination level 4 km from the Fukushima plant was 2000 times higher than 44 km away from the plant.  The importance of this careful and thorough survey, conducted by Japan’s top radiation scientists in Fukushima Prefecture, will increase over time.”

NHK TV DOCUMENTARY:

Nuclear : Collaborating to create a radioactive fallout contamination map

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVzX3gAxp58&feature=player_embedded

Thus, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), under the directorship of Dr. Steven Chu (Secretary of Energy) and Dr. Stephen Koonin, is following in the Fukushima HAARP-radiation false flag operation the same methodology that they followed in the BP Gulf Oil Spill false flag operation.

Ms. Moret states, “Dr. Steven Chu received a $500 million grant from BP Oil prior to being appointed Secretary of Energy by newly elected President Obama.  Obama also received $500 million from the British Crown two years prior to his election, to begin his election campaign for US President.. Upon his appointment as Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu appointed Dr. Stephen Koonin, chief scientist for BP, to run the DOE’s science operations.  The Queen of England personally owns BP.”

Read moreIndependent Scientist Leuren Moret: Japan, US, Canadian Governments Complicit In Covering Up Fukushima Radiation – ‘We Are Facing Total Extermination And Genocide’ – ‘We Are On Our Own’ (Video & Article)

Workers At Fukushima Plant Say Ground Is Cracking And Radioactive Steam Is Escaping – Prof. Robert Jacobs: Melted Core May Be Moving Out Of Building (Video)

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Cracked Fukushima: Radioactive steam escapes danger zone

YouTube Added: 17.08.2011

Workers at Japan’s Fukushima plant say the ground under the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the cracks. The cooling system at the plant failed after the devastating tsunami hit Japan in March, sparking a nuclear crisis. But new evidence suggests that Fukushima reactors were doomed to cripple even before the massive wave reached them. RT’s Anissa Naouai talks to Dr. Robert Jacobs, a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute.

Fukushima: 186,000 Becquerels Per Kg Radioactive Cesium in Aizu Wakamatsu City

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– 186,000 Becquerels/Kg Radioactive Cesium in Aizu Wakamatsu City in Fukushima (EX_SKF, August 16, 2011):

from the sludge in the drain. Aizu Wakamatsu City is 100 kilometers west of Fukushima I Nuclear power Plant.

From Sankei Shinbun (8/16/2011):

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The Fukushima District Court Aizu Wakamatsu Branch (in Aizu Wakamatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture) announced on August 16 that 186,000 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium was found in the sludge in the drain in the court compound. The Aizu Wakamatsu Branch of the Fukushima District Court is located 100 kilometers west of Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. The radioactive sludge will be removed under the guidance from Fukushima Prefecture and Aizu Wakamatsu City.

Read moreFukushima: 186,000 Becquerels Per Kg Radioactive Cesium in Aizu Wakamatsu City

Radioactive Materials From Japan Found In China’s Waters: Cesium-137 At 300 Times Normal & Strontium-90 At 10 Times Normal

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– China’s State Oceanic Administration: Wider Ocean Contamination Than Japanese Government Has Admitted (EX-SKF, August 15, 2011)

– Radioactive materials from Japan found in China’s waters (Xinhua, August 15, 2011):

China’s State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said last Friday (Aug 12) that waters in China have been affected by the radioactive materials leaked from the crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima.

Last month, the SOA said in a statement that the level of cesium-137 in samples collected from western Pacific waters is 300 times the usual level, and strontium-90 10 times .

Read moreRadioactive Materials From Japan Found In China’s Waters: Cesium-137 At 300 Times Normal & Strontium-90 At 10 Times Normal

Radioactive Sulphur-35 From Fukushima Nuclear Plant Found In California

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– Radioactive Sulphur from Fukushima I Nuke Plant Reached California (EX-SKF, August 15, 2011):

UC San Diego researchers found radioactive sulphur (sulphur-35) in the atmosphere that probably originated from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in the attempt to cool the reactors by injecting seawater. Chlorine in the seawater reacted with neutrons from the reactors to produce sulphur-35, which was then transported by a strong westerly wind to southern California, the researchers say.

Their findings were published in the electronic version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on August 16.

Here’s the abstract from the PNAS (emphasis is mine, in blue):

A recent earthquake and the subsequent tsunami have extensively damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant, releasing harmful radiation into the environment. Despite the obvious implication for human health and the surrounding ecology, there are no quantitative estimates of the neutron flux leakage during the weeks following the earthquake. Here, using measurements of radioactive 35S contained in sulfate aerosols and SO2 gas at a coastal site in La Jolla, California, we show that nearly 4 × 1011 neutrons per m2 leaked at the Fukushima nuclear power plant before March 20, 2011. A significantly higher Graphic activity as measured on March 28 is in accord with neutrons escaping the reactor core and being absorbed by the coolant seawater 35Cl to produce 35S by a (n, p) reaction. Once produced, 35S oxidizes to Graphic and Graphic and was then transported to Southern California due to the presence of strong prevailing westerly winds at this time. Based on a moving box model, we show that the observed activity enhancement in Graphic is compatible with long-range transport of the radiation plume from Fukushima. Our model predicts that Graphic, the concentration in the marine boundary layer at Fukushima, was approximately 2 × 105 atoms per m3, which is approximately 365 times above expected natural concentrations. These measurements and model calculations imply that approximately 0.7% of the total radioactive sulfate present at the marine boundary layer at Fukushima reached Southern California as a result of the trans-Pacific transport.

The amount is so tiny there’s nothing to worry about, says one of the researchers at UCSD:

“The levels we observed are in no way harmful in California,” Thiemens said.

Fukushima Nursery School: Geiger Counter ‘Nearly Off The Scale’ Near Play Equipment – Parents Pack Up Fukushima Children (Video)

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– Parents pack up Fukushima children (ABC News, August 15, 2011):

Many parents living around Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are sending their children away, while other are keeping their kids indoors.

Radiation STILL off the scale at Fukushima primary school

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Neptunium 239 Detected In Soil 38 Km From Fukushima Nuclear Plant

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– Neptunium-239 Detected from Soil in Iitate-mura in Fukushima??? (EX-SKF, August 15, 2011):

(Correction: my initial post said “several thousand becquerels per kilogram”, but on checking the original Japanese post there is no mention of “per kilogram” or per any other unit.)

The information comes from a strange source – the husband and wife comedian couple cum independent journalists attending and reporting on TEPCO and the government press conferences when they are not on stage.

In their blogpost on August 11 (in Japanese), they relate their talk with a researcher at the University of Tokyo who has submitted a scientific paper to a foreign academic society. This researcher, whom they say they cannot name because the paper is being reviewed right now, went to Fukushima and collected soil samples, rice hay samples, and water samples. He even went to the front of Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant and collected samples there.

He also went to Iitate-mura. And he tells the couple that he found neptunium-239 in Iitate-mura, about 38 kilometers from the plant, in approximately the same amount as he found at the front gate of Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. That is the topic of his paper.

Read moreNeptunium 239 Detected In Soil 38 Km From Fukushima Nuclear Plant

Unbelievable: Former NHK Director And Economist: ‘Doesn’t The Kyoto City Government Know That Radioactive Materials Will Be Dissolved And Rendered Harmless Once They Get Burned?’

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See also:

– AND NOW … Meet The 3 Japanese Scientists That Say: ‘Plutonium is Not That Dangerous’ (Video)

– Just Burn Radioactive Materials Then They’re Harmless, said One Japanese Economist (EX-SKF, August 13, 2011):

If that’s true, the entire Fukushima I Nuke Plant can blow up in a huge bonfire and we’ll be all set.

Nobuo Ikeda is a Japanese economist and commentator and a former NHK director. He has a sizeable following in Japan and is considered influential. I am just parroting what I’ve found about him, as all I know of him is the tweet he wrote and disseminated to his 120,000-plus followers from his Twitter account on August 13 (which has been taken down since), in which he, commenting on the decision by Kyoto City not to use the radioactive firewood from Rikuzen Takata City, apparently said:

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Doesn’t the Kyoto City government know that radioactive materials will be dissolved and rendered harmless once they get burned?

I sure didn’t.

Mr. Ikeda also says it’s a superstition that low-level radiation exposure causes cancer, according to his tweet on August 12 (in Japanese), and that the “anti-nuke” movement is nothing but a powerless conspiracy among the left and the ultra-left, former radical left from the 1960s.

There are no safe levels of radiation:

Read moreUnbelievable: Former NHK Director And Economist: ‘Doesn’t The Kyoto City Government Know That Radioactive Materials Will Be Dissolved And Rendered Harmless Once They Get Burned?’

AND NOW … “The World’s Safest Cookies” Baked by Fukushima School Kids

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– “The World’s Safest Cookies” Baked by Fukushima School Kids (EX-SKF, August 13, 2011):

From Mainichi Shinbun Japanese (8/13/2011):

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World’s safest cookies made by Fukushima elementary school children from Fukushima-grown food items

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Elementary school children who have evacuated from Okuma-machi to Aizu Wakamatsu City tried cookie making on August 13. Okuma-machi is where Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant is located. The children used dried peaches and persimmons that are made in Fukushima.

Read moreAND NOW … “The World’s Safest Cookies” Baked by Fukushima School Kids

Niigata Prefecture: Radioactive Manure From Cows That Ate Radioactive Rice Hay

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– #Radioactive Manure from Cows That Ate Radioactive Rice Hay (EX-SKF, August 13, 2011):

What went in did come out.

First, it was Shimane Prefecture where they found the manure made from cow dungs and urine with radioactive cesium in excess of the hastily decided provisional safety limit for manure and composts (400 becquerels/kg). The level of radioactive cesium ranged from 152 to 1083 becquerels/kg. The cows had eaten radioactive hay from Miyagi Prefecture. (From Asahi Shinbun 9/11/2011, original in Japanese).

Now it is Niigata Prefecture. Unlike Shimane Prefecture who just tested the manure at the JA (Japan’s agricultural producer co-op) stations, Niigata also tested the manure made at individual farms (sampling), and even higher amount of radioactive cesium was detected.

Read moreNiigata Prefecture: Radioactive Manure From Cows That Ate Radioactive Rice Hay

Radioactive Iodine Found In Thyroid Glands In 50% Of Fukushima Children (NHK)

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– Radiation effect on children’s thyroid glands (NHK, August 14, 2011):

A survey shows that a small amount of radioactive iodine has been detected in the thyroid glands of hundreds of children in Fukushima Prefecture.

The result was reported to a meeting of the Japan Pediatric Society in Tokyo on Saturday.

A group of researchers led by Hiroshima University professor Satoshi Tashiro tested 1,149 children in the prefecture for radiation in their thyroid glands in March following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Radioactive iodine was detected in about half of the children.

Tashiro says radiation in thyroid glands exceeding 100 millisieverts poses a threat to humans, but that the highest level in the survey was 35 millisieverts.

Tashiro says based on the result, it is unlikely that thyroid cancer will increase in the future, but that health checks must continue to prepare for any eventuality.

Tokyo Prof. Tatsuhiko Kodama Becomes Hero On The Internet For Blasting Politicians (Asahi)

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See also:

– WAKE-UP CALL: Prof. Tatsuhiko Kodama of Tokyo University To Japan Government ‘Shaking With Anger’: ‘What Are You Doing?’ (Part 1, 2, 3)

– Professor’s anger at lawmakers creates buzz on Internet (Asahi, Aug 13, 2011):

An exasperated University of Tokyo professor who launched an angry tirade at lawmakers over the Fukushima nuclear crisis has become a hero to many on the Internet.

Tatsuhiko Kodama, 58, who heads the Radioisotope Center at Todai, was called to provide expert testimony before the Lower House Health, Labor and Welfare Committee on July 27.

Facing a panel of lawmakers, Kodama said, “At a time when 70,000 people have left their homes and have no idea where to go, what is the Diet doing?”

Read moreTokyo Prof. Tatsuhiko Kodama Becomes Hero On The Internet For Blasting Politicians (Asahi)

Radiation Contamination: Fukushima Schools Unable To Drain Pool Water

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– Radiation contamination leaves Fukushima schools unable to drain pool water (Mainichi Japan, August 13, 2011):

Many schools in Fukushima Prefecture are at a loss over what do to with their swimming pools, which can’t be used or drained because the water is tainted with radioactive materials from the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, it has emerged.

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has said schools should obtain consent from farmers when draining pool water into agricultural waterways, but the Fukushima Prefectural Board of Education has not formed any guidelines on the concentration of radiation in water that is drained — leaving locals to sort out the issue themselves.

Read moreRadiation Contamination: Fukushima Schools Unable To Drain Pool Water

Symptoms Of Radiation Poisoning: Decrease In White Blood Cells, Headache, Nausea In Japan Hospitals

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– Decrease in White Blood Cells, Headache, Nausea in a Hospital in Sendai City, Miyagi (EX-SKF, August 12, 2011):

Tweets from a nurse (my very good guess from her tweets) in a large hospital in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture on August 10:

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Increasing number of patients with unexplainable decrease in white blood cells, headache, nausea. They are diagnosed for existing illness and undergo treatment, but they don’t respond to the treatment at all. I’ve seen those cases in my hospital. I’m not saying they are all because of the radiation exposure, but I’m telling you what I’m seeing.

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When we wash their hair, it comes off in a clump. It is really scary. The doctor says, “I really wonder why the white blood cell count is down…” Doctor, don’t be so relaxed about it. There is going to be more and more people who don’t respond to treatment.

She suspects internal radiation from hospital meals, which the in-patients have no choice but eat.

The Japanese government can now create another “Special District for Medical Research” in Miyagi Prefecture, in addition to the one in Fukushima.

NHK Special: Mapping The Radioactive Fallout

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– NHK Special: Mapping the Radioactive Fallout (EX-SKF, August 11, 2011):

It looks like the NHK Special on the grassroots effort in Japan to map the radioactive fallout after Fukushima has been translated by NHK World into English. Get it while you can, until NHK takes it down..


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AND NOW … Radioactive Firewood!!!

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– Now It’s #Radioactive Firewood: But It’s “Culturally Insensitive” Not to Burn It, Say Japanese Radiation Experts (EX-SKF, August 12, 2011):

They were going to burn it in Kyoto in the annual “Gozan no Okuribi” – ceremonial bonfire to send off the spirits of the dead at the end of Bon Festival. It was going to be burned for the people who died in the disaster-affected area, particularly in Rikuzen Takata City in Iwate Prefecture, where the firewood was made from the fallen pine trees.

When the news first broke of the plan to use the firewood from Rikuzen Takata City in Iwate, 185 km north of Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, concerned Kyoto residents protested, fearing the spread of radioactive materials by burning the wood. The residents were roundly scolded for being selfish, uncaring, insensitive to the people who suffered so much in the earthquake/tsunami of March 11.

Then, on August 10, radioactive cesium was detected, as high as 1,480 becquerels/kg, from the debris in Rikuzen Takata City.

Someone decided to test the new batch of firewood that came from Rikuzen Takata City on August 11, and they turned out to be radioactive. Not much, in the current radioactive state of things in Japan, as it was “only” 1,130 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium.

Kyoto City has decided not to use the firewood after all. But the city is being scolded for overreacting and “culturally insensitive”. Kyoto? Culturally insensitive?

From Yomiuri Shinbun (12:06AM 8/13/2011):

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“Just when we thought we were all going to do it…” On August 12, Kyoto City decided not to burn the firewood made from the pine trees from Rikuzen Takata City in Iwate prefecture because of radioactive cesium detected from the firewood. The firewood was to be burned in the “Kyoto Gozan no Okuribi” bonfire [on August 16]. Organizers of the event in Kyoto City were disappointed and perplexed.

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Kyoto City Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa apologized, “I am heart-broken for having disappointed people in Rikuzen Takata City and in the disaster-affected areas. I sincerely apologize to people who have put in tremendous effort in making it happen.” The mayor repeated, “there is no national safety standard for firewood. I urge the national government to create the safety standard as soon as possible.”

Read moreAND NOW … Radioactive Firewood!!!

Citizen Group Wants Radiation Tests Done In Canada – Health Canada Calls Radiation At More Than 300 Times Background Level ‘MINUTE’

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See also:

– Health Canada Detected Massive Amounts Of Radioactive Material From Fukushima: ‘Authorities Don’t Want People To Have An Understanding Of This’

– Canada: Dangerous Levels Of Radiation – Highly Radioactive Rain in Lake Louise, BC (1.66 mcSv/hr) (07/18/2011)

– Citizen group wants radiation tests done in Canada, ( Straight, August 11, 2011):

A Vancouver woman wants Canadian governments held more accountable for protecting public health in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. In an August 8 interview at the Georgia Straight office, Isabel Budke pointed out that citizens and nongovernmental organizations can exert a great deal more pressure on Health Canada and other regulators to improve monitoring, measuring, and reporting on radiation levels in water, soil, and food.

“I really think we need to have localized and regional testing because, from what I understand, the plumes that have drifted over the Pacific Ocean with this radiation are touching down on different areas in different ways, depending on where the jet stream is going and what weather conditions are,” Budke said. “We can’t rely on testing results from the United States or testing that has been done somewhere else in the country. I think we need to have our own testing in B.C.”

Budke, who has an SFU master’s degree in environmental and resource management, said that if governments won’t do this work, she wants the public to work collaboratively to have food, soil, and water tested. Her group has created a “Canadian Network for Radiation Awareness & Monitoring” website, which will post results from citizen-initiated laboratory tests.

Last week, the Straight reported that on March 20, a Health Canada monitoring station in Sidney, B.C., detected iodine-131 at more than 300 times the background level. Despite this, Health Canada spokesperson Stéphane Shank told the Straight on August 9 from Ottawa that air-monitoring stations have shown that radiation levels are “minute” and pose “no risk” to Canadians.

“Levels that are being detected are within the natural background radiation fluctuations that we would see on a normal, average day,” he claimed.

Read moreCitizen Group Wants Radiation Tests Done In Canada – Health Canada Calls Radiation At More Than 300 Times Background Level ‘MINUTE’

Breaking News: Resident Of ‘Minami Soma Shi’ Has Severe Internal Radiation Exposure

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– Breaking News: A citizen of Minami soma shi turned out to have had severe internal exposure (Fukushima Diary, August 11, 2011):

8/3/2011,on the TV show “News Watch 9? of NHK,they report that people from Minami soma shi had whole body counter check.

On the TV show,camera caught one of the result sheets.

It reads,

Cs-137 129,746 Bq + Cs-134 122,676 Bq = 252,422 Bq/kg

The person has had a severe internal exposure.

Minami soma shi is south to Fukushima nuclear plant,about 30km area.

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3/12,SPEEDI forecast plumes would fly to there,which was concealed by the government.