Crisis at Japan Nuclear Plant Shifts to New Blast Risk

TEPCO Knew Radiation In Seawater Is 7.5 Million Above Normal Before It Started Dumping Radioactivity In Sea On Monday

U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant – NYT

‘No safe levels’ of radiation in Japan
Experts warn that any detectable level of radiation is “too much”.

ABS:CBN Nuclear radiation: There is no safe dose

Government Under Fire as Radiation Is Found in Milk, Rain

Pr. Chris Busby, ECRR, versus Dr. Jack Valentin , ICRP, 1(2)
by Radio Active

The scientific discussion that may stop the apocalyptic process of polluting the earth with radioactive particles that get into human blood through air flows and destroy human DNA irrepearably. Filmed by Ditta Rietuma.

Stockholm, 22nd April 2009. The recently resigned Scientific Secretary of the ICRP, Dr Jack Valentin (icrp.org), conceeds to Pr. Chris Busby, ECRR (euradcom.org) , that the ICRP model can not be used to predict the health effects of exposures and that for certain internal exposures it is insecure by up to two orders of magnitude. He also said that as he was no longer employed by ICRP he could agree that the ICRP and the United Nations committee on radiation protection (UNSCEAR) had been wrong in not examining the evidence from the Chernobyl accident, and other evidence outlined below, which shows large errors in the ICRP risk model. Read more…

Pr. Chris Busby, ECRR, versus Dr. Jack Valentin , ICRP, 1(2) from Radio Active on Vimeo.

ECRR 2010 Recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risk
Download free PDF here.

The UN Cover Up of Ionizing Radiation Health FX

Deconstructing Nuclear Experts – Dr. Chris Busby
Some May be More Dangerous Than Radiation

The Push to Revive Nuclear Power
The Push to Revive Nuclear Power, an award-winning video documentary, was made during the first Bush administration?but the claims of nuclear promoters then and now remain the same. This documentary explodes myths–still being promulgated–such as nuclear power relieving the need for oil and helping with climate change. It includes appearances by: Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, Harvey Wasserman, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Michael Mariotte of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Robert Pollard of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Ralph Nader, who in it describes nuclear power as ?unnecessary, too costly, too dangerous and destructive in terms of future generations.? Produced by EnviroVideo in 1991.

Japan’s nuclear power crisis could force reactor closures

RADIATION EXPOSURE DEBATE RAGES INSIDE EPA — Plan to Radically Hike Post-Accident Radiation in Food & Water Sparks Hot Dissent

Germany Abandons Nuclear Power

‪April 6 Fukushima forecast shows Northwest US under threat (CLOSEUP)‬

Checking a nuclear fault line
PG&E should be required to permit a 3-D scan of faults near the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant before it applies to renew its operating license.

List of Power Reactor Units

Potential April 6th Fukushima Fallout Forecast Shows U.S. West Coast Under Threat

San Francisco Rainwater: Radiation 181 Times Above US Drinking Water Standard

Radioactivity in Sea up 7.5 Million Times
Marine life contamination well beyond Japan feared
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Photos of the Day – Fukushima Dai-ichi Aerials – A Photo Essay From OregonLive.com
In this March 20, 2011 aerial photo taken by a small unmanned drone and released by AIR PHOTO SERVICE, the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. From right to left: Unit 1, Unit2, Unit 3 and Unit 4. (AP Photo/AIR PHOTO SERVICE) MANDATORY CREDIT

Obama in radiation suit gives his NBA picks…
April 1, 2011 – Washington, DC – The president takes time out of his busy day meeting with nuclear renaissance proponents, investors and public relations experts to pick his favorite basketball teams… The Pennington Press [ It IS April Fools Day – Eds. ]

Japan pays ‘suicide squads’ fortunes to work in stricken nuclear plant as ‘battle is lost for reactor two’
# Four reactors at stricken plant to be decommissioned
# Subcontractors offered £760 a day – 20 times going rate – to brave radiation levels but some refuse
# One expert who designed reactor says race to save reactor two is ‘lost’
# Radiation levels in sea water 3,335 times higher than normal
# Readings are almost three times worse than last week
# Unmanned drone photographs plant from the air amid health fear for pilots
# American robots dispatched to help containment efforts
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EPA’s radiation detection system not 100 percent
WASHINGTON (RNN) – As reports continue to surface that radiation from Japan’s failed nuclear reactors is reaching the U.S., the integrity of the system used by the federal government to monitor risks has been called into question.

“The monitoring system isn’t functioning fully,” said Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer on nuclear policy at the University of California Santa Cruz.

The monitoring system, known as RadNet, is the nation’s comprehensive network for monitoring radioactivity and ionizing radiation, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The EPA has acknowledged that its network isn’t fully operational. And according to media reports referenced by Hirsch, some of RadNet’s monitoring systems have gone months without receiving necessary repairs. Read more…

U.S. EPA Monitoring Map

CBG’s Dan Hirsch on NBC Nightly News

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The Japan Nuclear Disaster and Implications for Future of U.S. Nuclear Power: CBG’s Dan Hirsch On Lawrence O’Donnell’s The Last Word on MSNBC

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Dr. Chris Busby, EU Committee on Radiation Risks – Full meltdown in full swing? Japan maximum nuclear alert

Interview – Dr. Alexey Yablokov – Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe

Rachel Maddow with Frank von Hippel – 10,000 times more radioactive

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What’s next for nuclear power? Six experts weigh in. Fortune Mag

Rachel Maddow on Dangers at US Nukes

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Crews ‘facing 100-year battle’ at Fukushima ABC News
A nuclear expert has warned that it might be 100 years before melting fuel rods can be safely removed from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant.

From Mark Crispin Miller’s News from Underground
The truth about radiation, at length and in detail
From Earl Katz…
PDF: Radiation Toxicity
PDF: Yablokov Chernobyl book

Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million People: New Book
NEW YORK – Nearly one million people around the world died from exposure to radiation released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor, finds a new book from the New York Academy of Sciences published today on the 24th anniversary of the meltdown at the Soviet facility.

The book, “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment,” was compiled by authors Alexey Yablokov of the Center for Russian Environmental Policy in Moscow, and Vassily Nesterenko and Alexey Nesterenko of the Institute of Radiation Safety, in Minsk, Belarus.

The authors examined more than 5,000 published articles and studies, most written in Slavic languages and never before available in English.
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The Chernobyl nuclear reactor was destroyed by an explosion and fire April 26, 1986. (Photo issued by Soviet authorities)

Food & Water Watch: Any Dose of Radiation Can Be Harmful

Gundersen Disscuses the Environment and Radiation Levels Faced By the Fukushima Rescue Workers.

Gundersen Disscuses the Environment and Radiation Levels Faced By the Fukushima Rescue Workers. from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

Dr. Michio Kaku says three raging meltdowns under way at Fukushima

“Prescription for Survival”: A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott Transcript here.

Roy Morrison: An Open Letter to George Monbiot re Global Warming & Nuke Power

NUCLEAR NONSENSE: – Arjun Makhijani – Institute for Environmental and Energy Research – ieer.org
Dr. Arjun Makhihani is the author of the study commissioned by Dr. Helen Caldicott and referenced by her in her debate with George Monbiot listed above: Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy In this prescient 2007 with EON’s Mary Beth Brangan and James Heddle, Dr. Makhijani debunks the idea of ‘new nukes.’

Radiation Experts Determine 200,000 Cancers Likely from Fukushima

Mothers against the Diablo Canyon reactor – Fortune Mag

Retaliation at San Onofre Nuclear Plant
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jayne-lyn-stahl/retaliation-at-san-onofre_b_840797.html

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Suffers Historic Defeat

Traces of Radiation Found in Pennsylvania Rain Water
State officials say radiation traces detected in air no concern

Radiation Found in Massachusetts Rain Water

Riverkeeper Calls for Immediate Shutdown of New York’s Indian Point

CNN: Japan’s Nuclear Contamination Spreads to More US States

Marvin Resnikov: Fukushima 2.0

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Commentary by James Heddle and Mary Beth Brangan
Video by James Heddle

Left – Bob Levitt makes a point in the March 28 Bolinias, CA Fire Board Meeting.
Photo: West Marin Citizen

National Microcosm
In a scene being duplicated in meeting rooms across the country, local electeds and citizens in Bolinas, CA wrestle with the tsunami of cell phone antenna upgrades now being deployed by the telecommunications industry nation-wide. [Scroll down to watch the meeting in 2 parts.]

Part 1:

Bolinas is hopefully unique in having two commercial cell phone towers in the very center of the community health clinic, fire hall and public recreation area. A portion of the Volunteer Fire Department’s budget comes from the rental income from the antennas. Now AT&T and T-Moble want to add more to service new generations of broadband wireless devices.

Part 2:

Informed citizens, aware of the proven health risks of cell tower RF radiation, are opposed to a new build-out. Like other local decision-making bodies across the country, this Fire Board is at a disadvantage.

Before the industry-drafted Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton, communities had been successful at blocking the placement of cell towers in residential areas on the basis of then-available scientific data on serious human health risks. Section 704 of the Act took care of that. It prohibits local jurisdictions from blocking antenna placement on the basis of public health concerns, even though voluminous scientific evidence of radiation health effects has been on record since WWII. https://www.magdahavas.com/category/from-zorys-archive/

Preemptive Law Making
Denial of scientific evidence of health effect is built right into the law:
D. State or Local Governments May Not Regulate Wireless Facilities on the Basis of Environmental Effects of Radio Frequency Emissions if the Applicant Demonstrates Compliance with FCC Regulations
{17} As written, the purpose of the requirement is to prevent telecommunications siting decisions from being based upon unscientific or irrational fears that emissions from telecommunications sites may cause undesirable health effects. In a surprising number of public hearings on the issue of cellular siting, individuals appear and complain of allegedly harmful health effects, although the authors know of no studies substantiating such claims https://www.mttlr.org/volthree/mclaren_art.html#refpart7

Outdated Regs
Another problem is that ‘FCC Regulations’ are lax, out-dated and obsolete in comparison to the much more stringent, science-based enforced in other countries. Here’s how the FCC guidelines compared with other countries’ standards as of the year 2000 – at 580 microwatts per centimeter squared at 800-900 MHZ.

UK – 5800
US & Canada -580
Australia – 200
Auckland, NZ – 50
Italy, Russia – 10
China – 6
Switzerland – 4
Saltzberg, Austria – 0.1

Quite a difference between 580 and 0.1, wouldn’t you say? The Saltzberg standard is based on an international study-of-studies called the BioInitiative Report, which has been taken very seriously by EU governments, but has been totally ignored in the US.

Sage Advice
Cindy Sage, of Sage Associates, is a world-class consultant on RF issues and the Co-Editor of the BioInitiative Report, a report of 13 internationally renowned scientists from around the globe. Based upon the BioInitiative Report, the Department of the Environment in the EU has recommended to its member Parliaments that their standards for exposure to RF radiation be lowered to the levels recommended by the report.

In 2000, Ms. Sage was commissioned by the Fire District to model the proposed build-out of antennas then being proposed. Her findings impacted the final decision to locate some of the proposed antennas elsewhere. In 2005 she was commissioned by the Concerned Citizen’s Advisory Committee to do another study for Bolinas.

A recent report by the EBI company purports to provide actual measurements of existing levels of radiation at various locations at the Mesa Park site. Ms. Sage analized the numbers provided and comments as follows:
Note:
‘Allowable’ public limits according to current FCC ‘guidelines’: 1000 uW/cm2
Recommended limits according to BioInitiative Report: 0.1 uW/cm2

‘Hair-raising’ Readings
– Community Health Clinic at ground level (measured in microwatts per centimeter squared, or uW/cm2 : 5.465% of general public limit or 54 uW/cm2 based on a combined FCC limit of 1000 uW/cm2

This is 580 times above recommended levels in the BioInitiative Rpt., or 0.1 uW/cm2
– Playground at ground level:
5.84% of general public limit or 58 uW/cm2 based on a combined FCC limit of 1000 uW/cm2
This is 580 times above recommended levels in the BioInitiative Rpt., or 0.1 uW/cm2

– Maximum measured (unstated location):
6.345% of general public limit or 63.5 uW/cm2 – based on a combined FCC limit of 1000 uW/cm2
This is 630 times above recommended levels in the BioInitiative Rpt., or 0.1 uW/cm2

– Fire house is only 0.32% or less than one microwatt/cm2 (0.3 uW/cm2)  
vs 58 uW/cm2 at the playground, and
vs 54 uW/cm2 at the health clinic

Sage calls the ‘existing RF levels intolerable.’ She points out that these levels are more than five hundred percent higher than the bioinitiative and seletun scientific statement recommendations.

Sage reported that reading these numbers ‘made my hair stand on end!’ And this is before ANY ADDITIONAL antennas are included in the measurements.

So… a pre-emptive law written by lobbyists; inadequate, obsolete FCC safety ‘standards;’ a one-sided contract; fiscal dependency; and an informed citizenry in oposiition – what are the options?

Whether the telecom companies’ request to add more antennas can be denied on the basis that local cell phone coverage is already adequate and that the public perception that additional antennas will create unacceptable exposure levels for surrounding residences will lower property values, remains to be seen.
The Board will take up the issue again at its April meeting. Stay tuned….
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