Thousands evacuate as Fukishima nuclear emergency is declared

[Peter Lemkin]

One party at another location on this 'net says that we should not worry... that the Japanese have a good deal of experience with radiation injury. angryfire

Well, one can't deny that the Japanese have more experience with dealing with radiation-induced injury than anyone else; but that is a total non sequitur. Looks, sadly, like they are about to add to their great body of 'experience' once again. They seem to be the laboratory for radiation 'experiments'.

[Magda Hassan]

Yes, the peaceful atom strikes again.... :nuke:

[Keith Millea]

Leuren Moret - Coverup -- California Northwest and BC Canada under radiation as high as Japan (85 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zL3M3kvg...dded#at=19


So is there independent corroboration, and who is this Leuren Moret? Is she credible?

Ed:
Interesting find.Leuren Moret has the credentials,but imo she fails the credibility test.When people start spouting that every disaster is some false flag event,I run!Sorry,but Fukushima was not a false flag,just as Katrina was not.But,I do at least give her credit for talking about the radiation issue and blackout on the NW coast.

A Bio can be found below:

Leuren Moret Biography: Independent Scientist; Expert Witness at the Tokyo International Tribunal for War Crimes in Afghanistan; Expert Witness on HAARP & Environmental Warfare




Leuren Moret was an Expert Witness at the International Criminal Tribunal For Afghanistan At Tokyo. She is an independent scientist and international expert on radiation and public health issues. She is on the organizing committee of the World Committee on Radiation Risk, an organization of independent radiation specialists, including members of the Radiation Committee in the EU parliament, the European Committee on Radiation Risk. She has been an environmental commissioner for the City of Berkeley. Ms. Moret earned her BS in geology at U.C. Davis in 1968 and her MA in Near Eastern studies from U.C. Berkeley in 1978. She has completed all but her dissertation for a PhD in the geosciences at U.C. Davis. She has traveled and conducted scientific research in 42 countries. She contributed to a scientific report on depleted uranium for the United Nations sub commission investigating the illegality of depleted uranium munitions. Marion Fulk, a former Manhattan Project scientist and retired insider at the Livermore Lab, who is an expert on radioactive fallout and rainout, has trained her on radiation issues.


Leuren Moret has conducted research concerning the impact on the health of the environment and global public health from atmospheric testing, nuclear power plants, and depleted uranium. She has helped collect and measure radiation in 6000 baby teeth from children living around nuclear power plants, and helped The State of Louisiana (USA) pass the first state depleted uranium bill for mandatory testing of soldiers.

Articles she wrote on DU were translated into Indian languages to increase awareness. Her article "Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War" in the June 2004 WORLD AFFAIRS JOURNAL was translated at the request of the Kremlin for distribution throughout the Russian government. The LONE STAR ICONOCLAST, hometown newspaper of President Bush, interviewed her for a series of interviews, "What is depleted uranium?", which are now attached to US Congressman McDermott's 2005 depleted uranium bill HR 2410 in the US Congress. The newspaper did a second issue, March 1, 2006, titled "Have DU Will Travel". Her City of Berkeley 2003 resolution banning weapons in space was followed by a Space Preservation Treaty Resolution adopted by seven sister cities in British Columbia, Canada, contributing to Prime Minister Paul Martin's decision in February 2005 to abandon his secret agreement with President Bush to allow NMD in Canada.

Her research on divestment of pension funds from US weapons manufacturers was discussed on a Vancouver radio station in April 2005. The interview helped to make divestment, of $4.6 billion (in 251 US weapons manufacturers) in British Columbia (BC) pension funds, an issue for the May 2005 election platform in BC.

Leuren Moret is a Livermore nuclear weapons lab whistleblower, an Environmental Commissioner in the City of Berkeley, and testifies as a depleted uranium expert in the new documentary film BEYOND TREASON.

HAARP & Environmental warfare articles and radio programs with
Leuren Moret: http://exopolitics.blogs.com/peaceinspace/

Leuren Moret Testimony: http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Leure...3dec03.htm

http://exopolitics.blogs.com/peaceinspac...anist.html

[Ed Jewett]

Fukushima Predicted: Regulatory Commission was Warned for Years
by grtv
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) held a special ACRS meeting Thursday May 26, 2011 on the current status of Fukushima.

Arnie Gundersen was invited to speak for 5 minutes concerning the lessons learned from the Fukushima accident as it pertains to the 23 Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactors (BWR's) in the US and containment integrity.

Mr. Gundersen was the first engineer to brief the NRC on the implication of Main Steam Isolation Valve (MSIV) Leakage in 1974, and he has been studying containment integrity since 1972. The NRC has constantly maintained in all of its calculations and reviews that there is zero probability of a containment leaking.

For more than six years, in testimony and in correspondence with the NRC, Mr. Gundersen has disputed the NRC's stand that containment systems simply do not and cannot leak. The events at Fukushima have proven that Gundersen was correct. The explosions at Fukushima show that Mark 1 containments will lose their integrity and release huge amounts of radiation, as Mr. Gundersen has been telling the NRC for many years.

Video at link:
http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/06/fuku...rned-years

[Ed Jewett]

MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2011

Japan Finally Admits TOTAL Meltdown at 3 Nuclear Reactors Within Hours of Earthquake ... And More Than DOUBLES Estimate of Radiation Released After Accident


For months, Tepco and Japanese officials refused to admit that there had been any meltdowns at Fukushima.

Then they said there were meltdowns at reactors 1, 2 and 3 ... but they might have only been partial meltdowns.

Finally, today, they admitted the obvious: there were total meltdowns at all 3 reactors. As CNN reports:

Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant experienced full meltdowns at three reactors in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami in March, the country's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters said Monday.

The nuclear group's new evaluation, released Monday, goes further than previous statements in describing the extent of the damage caused by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11.

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Reactors 1, 2 and 3 experienced a full meltdown, it said.

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But Tokyo Electric [on May 24th] released a second possible scenario for reactors 2 and 3, one that estimated a full meltdown did not occur. In that scenario, the company estimated the fuel rods may have broken but may not have completely melted.

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Temperature data showed the two reactors had cooled substantially in the more than two months since the incident, Tokyo Electric said in May.

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Tokyo Electric avoided using the term "meltdown," and says it was keeping the remnants of the core cool. But U.S. experts interviewed by CNN after the company's announcement in May said that while it may have been containing the situation, the damage had already been done.

"On the basis of what they showed, if there's not fuel left in the core, I don't know what it is other than a complete meltdown," said Gary Was, a University of Michigan nuclear engineering professor and CNN consultant. And given the damage reported at the other units, "It's hard to imagine the scenarios can differ that much for those reactors."

As the Japan Times reports today, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has "more than doubled its estimate of the radioactive material ejected into the air in the early days of the Fukushima nuclear crisis".

Japan Times also notes that plutonium has been found in soil outside of the nuclear complex - about 1.7 kilometers from the front gate of Fukushima. However, the plutonium probably came from the so-called "hydrogen explosions", which hopefully won't happen again. (However, nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen believes that at least some of the explosions were caused by nuclear reactions in the fuel pools.)

While it is tempting to believe that the worst of the crisis is over, some of the reactors are more radioactive than ever, and nuclear chain reactions may still be occurring.

And it's not just the reactors themselves.

Remember that - when the spent fuel rods stored onsite within the reactor buildings are included - the amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl.

For background, see this.

Multiple embedded links, as usual, at
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/j...ns-at.html

[Keith Millea]

I just found this talk about radiation on the Arnie Gundersen site.It's a month old,but is still very useful information.Check it out.

[video=vimeo;23186557]http://vimeo.com/23186557[/video]

http://www.fairewinds.com/

[Keith Millea]

Arnie Gundersen on CNN.

[Ed Jewett]

The Real Dangers of Nuclear Power and Nuclear War
by grtv
Dr. Helen Caldicott: Conference on THE NUCLEAR DANGER: Nuclear War and Nuclear Power

Montreal. March 18, 2011

Sponsored by the Centre for Research on Globalization

Part 2: http://youtu.be/v9LK9LB0FNU
Part 3: http://youtu.be/xtb7uX2icKg
Part 4: http://youtu.be/YJC5WSrOz2U
Part 5: http://youtu.be/C-iTYFnsnqM
Part 6: http://youtu.be/83mzk9fkj1c
Part 7: http://youtu.be/3TN4n6ja4EE

The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last 38 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction.

In the words of Dr. Caldicott, "When I first heard about the reactor damage at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, I knew the prognosis: If any of the containment vessels or fuel pools exploded, it would mean millions of new cases of cancer in the Northern Hemisphere.

Many advocates of nuclear power would deny this. During the 25th anniversary last week of the Chernobyl disaster, some commentators asserted that few people died in the aftermath, and that there have been relatively few genetic abnormalities in survivors' offspring. It's an easy leap from there to arguments about the safety of nuclear energy compared to alternatives like coal, and optimistic predictions about the health of the people living near Fukushima.

But this is dangerously ill informed and short-sighted; if anyone knows better, it's doctors like me."

For more information:
http://www.helencaldicott.com/

Filmed and edited by Jorge Zegarra

http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/06/real...uclear-war

[Ed Jewett]

Fukushima escalates to worse-case possibility --Japan has suggested the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant has gone beyond a meltdown into a worst-case melt-through.

08 Jun 2011 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2...239276.htm

For the first time Japan has suggested the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant has gone beyond a meltdown. Japan says that nuclear fuel in three reactors has possibly melted through the pressure vessels and accumulated in the outer containment vessels. Japanese media report this melt-through is far worse than a core meltdown and the worst possibility in a nuclear accident.

http://www.legitgov.org/Fukushima-escala...ossibility

[Keith Millea]

Ed:

I just watched part 1 of Dr. Caldicotts presentation.I didn't find it anywhere in your post,so I'll add it here.Excellent find........

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0EJkzG2m...detailpage