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Five Years Later: 3,400 dead! 349,000 domestic refugees! No more fat kids?

05 March 2016 (11:45 UTC-07 Tango 01) 15 Esfand 1394/25 Jumada al-Ula 1437/27 Xin Mao 4714

Five years after the March 2011 quake-tsunami-nuclear disaster the Japanese Reconstruction Agency revealed that more than 3-thousand 4-hundred “survivors” have died.  Not surprising, 56% of those deaths took place in the nuclear disaster reactor prefecture of Fukushima!

Other data proving the failure of Japan’s response to the 2011 disasters; by mid-February this year more than 174-thousand people are still in temporary housing.  I should point out that back in 2011 government officials were expecting the ‘temporary’ housing to be used for no more than six months!  Many administrators were not prepared for the radiation levels that, in some areas, are still preventing people from returning to their homes.  Another 156,234 survivors are living in homes/apartments that are being rented by local governments.  18,237 survivors are living with relatives.  All together about 349-thousand people are living as refugees in their own country!

43,139 survivors of the initial 2011 disaster from Fukushima are still living outside the prefecture, however, the ongoing nuclear disaster is blamed for an exodus of 115-thousand residents since then!

For more proof that living as a refugee, even in your own country, is worse than staying put NHK  (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) surveyed more than 5-hundred survivors: 42% said their standard of living has not improved. 37%  said their situation is worse. 11% said they are struggling.

In a sign of some improvement, children in Fukushima are no longer fat?  After fours years of gaining weight school aged children in the nuclear disaster are suddenly losing it.  That’s according to the Ministry of Education.  It’s assumed that reason why school kids got fat was because they were not allowed to play outside due to the radiation contamination.  In the past year the ban on playing out side was lifted, and education administrators think that’s why the kids have suddenly lost weight.  It must be pointed out that being fat in Japan does not mean you’re actually fat, it’s based on the government standard for being overweight.  The government has somehow determined how much a person should weigh, and if you’re 20% or more over that limit you’re a fatty!

But don’t credit declining radiation contamination for the lifting of the outside play ban, the real reason is that the number of parents keeping their kids out of Fukushima schools has jumped; 1-thousand 785 children were kept out of school in 2015, that’s 2-hundred more than before the March 2011 disaster!

Confirmed: Population death spiral for Japan!

Japan admits Fukushima workers dying of cancer!

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Mysterious reactor shutdown in Japan! Corporate cronyism blamed for Fukushima disaster!

29 February 2016 /21:29 UTC-07 Tango 01 (11 Esfand 1394/21 Jumada al-Ula 1437/23 Geng Yin 4714)

Only three days after re-start a nuclear reactor in Japan suddenly shutdown, automatically.

Kansai Electric Power Company restarted reactor 4 at their Takahama facility on Friday, then on Monday it shut itself down.  Administrators say an alarm went off when technicians were connecting the reactor to the consumer power grid, the computers sensed ‘abnormal currents’  and automatically shutdown the reactor.  Administrators don’t know what caused the problem.  (just a week prior the same nuke plant leaked contaminated water)

France based OECD Nuclear Energy Agency concluded its investigations into the ongoing nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi.

One finding is that Japan’s ‘tradition’ of involving corporations in the government regulation of industries is a major factor for the failure of proper response to the disaster that began on 11 March 2011.  In other words, the government nuclear regulation is a farce because it allows the nuclear industry corporations to essentially self-regulate.

It’s not just Japan, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency criticized several countries of doing the same thing: “The principle of regulatory independence, in particular the effective separation between the functions of the regulatory body and those of any other body or organisation concerned with the promotion or use of nuclear energy, is fundamental and requires vigilance to ensure it is maintained.  Some member countries have reviewed, and other member countries are in the process of reviewing, their regulatory frameworks and are making changes as appropriate to update their legislation so as to reflect lessons learnt from the Fukushima Daiichi accident.”–FIVE YEARS AFTER THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ACCIDENT: Nuclear Safety Improvements and Lessons Learnt

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5 years later Fukushima Hell continues!

26 February 2016 (03:11 UTC-07 Tango 01) 07 Esfand 1394/17 Jumada al-Ula 1437/19 Geng Yin 4714

Three former executives of TEPCo are finally going to face trial over the 2011 nuclear melt downs and resulting explosions at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011.  They are charged with professional negligence resulting in deaths and injuries. Prosecutors accuse the former executives of knowingly ignoring procedures for handling nuclear emergencies.  The deaths include numerous patients evacuated from the nearby Futaba Kosei hospital.

Despite the criminal charges, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) continues to amaze at its level of seeming ignorance concerning the never ending melt downs at Fukushima Daiichi.

Five years later the basements of the reactor buildings are still flooding with contaminated water, and TEPCo adminstrators announced yet another plan to stop the flooding.  In the meantime TEPCo has been pumping the radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean (of course they claim they filter it down to ‘safe’ levels).  By the way, the new plan to stop the flooding the basements is expected take four years to complete!

On top of that TEPCo will begin incinerating accumulated mixed nuclear waste.  Japan has no official nuclear waster storage and the Fukushima Daiichi property is piling up with nuclear waste.  Interestingly news reports say that reducing the mixed waste (clothing, tools, etc) to ash will actually increase the concentration of radiation by volume.  TEPCo wants to burn 14 tonnes per day.

The incinerators were in use before the 2011 disasters, it took TEPCo five years to get them up and running again (maybe, they still have to test fire them), the reason is the same reason TEPCo has given for almost all their problems dealing with the melt downs; unexplained contaminated water leaks.

Now, if you work at Fukushima Daiichi would you trust what your supervisor tells you?  Workers are now being told they don’t have to wear protective clothing while working on certain areas of the nuclear plant’s grounds.

TEPCo administrators say it’s because they’ve completed removing contaminated topsoil from a large area of the complex.  They claim radiation levels in those areas are low enough that protective clothing is not required, but workers can still wear them if they want to (good idea).

The ongoing nuke disaster is blamed for an exodus of 115-thousand residents, the largest population drop of all the prefectures.

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More TEPCo lies revealed! United States to blame!

24 February 2016 (03:43 UTC-07 Tango 01) 05 Esfand 1394/15 Jumada al-Ula 1437/17 Geng Yin 4714

Five years after the ongoing nuclear disaster known as Fukushima began more lies propogated by Tokyo Electric Power Company are being outed!

Originally TEPCo stated it had no corporate policy regarding the definition of a reactor core melt down.  They based their reasoning for not having melt down policies on lies from U.S. General Electric (who designed the disaster reactors), which literally said in writing that the reactors were “safe”.

It’s now been revealed that TEPCo did indeed have a definition of a reactor core emergency based on possible 5% damage to core.  Just days after the 11 March 2011 tsunami TEPCo employees documented 30% damage to several reactor cores!

A recent United Nations IAEA study concluded that the lack of response to the nuclear melt downs was because Japanese officials truly believed the bullshit spewed by U.S. nuclear industry, which said nuclear reactors were 100% safe!  Japanese officials have even produced letters from U.S. companies stating so!

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Nuclear leak halts restart in Japan! U.S. refuses to compensate fishermen caught in Castle Bravo test!

22 February 2016 (02:49 UTC-07 Tango 01) 03 Esfand 1394/13 Jumada al-Ula 1437/15 Geng Yin 4714

A radioactive water leak halted the re-start of a nuclear power plant, no, not in northeastern Japan near the ongoing disaster known as Fukushima, but in southern Japan, at the Kansai Electric Power Company’s Takahama Nuclear Power Plant, in Fukui Prefecture.

At least 34 liters of contaminated cooling water leaked from the reactors.  Plant operators are investigating to find out why.

This latest leak is taking place at the same time that fishermen caught up in a 1954 U.S. nuclear weapons test are now demanding they be compensated for their cancers.

These are not the fishermen of the infamous Fukuryu Maru Number 5, who were compensated, but men on boats further away from the Castle Bravo nuclear blast.  They all suffer cancers now directly connected to exposure to radiation specifically created by nuclear weapons.

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‘Christian’ G4S “Shadow CIA” connected to Indian Point nuke meltdown?

10 February 2016/19:29 UTC-07 Tango 01 (22 Bahman 1394/02 Jumada al-Ula 1437/04 Geng Yin 4714)

“We stripped them naked and you throw water so the electricity can work nicely….you want them to be afraid of you.”-‘Mpho’, former G4S prison guard interviewed by BBC

G4S Nuclear Security Services Corporation (NSSC) employee

The same evil British empire based ‘christian’ G4S that was called out in a BBC investigation for torturing prisoners, is in charge of nuclear power plant security in the United States (and other western countries), including Entergy operated Indian Point, in New York.

G4S Secure Solutions (formerly G4S Wackenhut) claims to be the world’s biggest security company.  It started with Florida based Wackenhut which was taken over by a Netherlands based company and then merged with another company to create the United Kingdom based G4S plc.  The U.S. Department of Energy contracts with G4S’s Nuclear Security Services Corporation (aka NSSC).

The ‘christian’ G4S is heavily involved with the illegal Israeli apartheid/holocaust prison operations against Palestinians.   Bishop Desmond Tutu, a true Christian who experienced South Africa’s apartheid first hand, accused G4S of torturing Palestinian child prisoners in 2014!  In 2010, three British ‘christian’ G4S guards killed a man on a British Airways flight by suffocating him.  Passengers stated they heard the victim saying “They’re trying to kill me!”  

Wackenhut has been accused of security lapses at several U.S. military bases within the United States, and at nuclear power plants as well.  In 2007, Idaho’s Dirk Kempthorne (mentor of current Idaho governor Butch Otter) was asked to investigate Wackenhut’s nuclear power plant security performance while he was U.S. Secretary of the Interior.  Wackenhut was even accused of ripping off its own employees: “It is important that federal contractors like Wackenhut benefiting from taxpayer dollars and protecting our country’s vital interests demonstrate fairness toward their employees and support efforts to raise the standards of the security profession to the highest level possible.”-Bob Casey, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania

Apparently Kempthorne’s ears were deaf to such requests of investigation.

Security guard instructor pointing to a remote controlled machine gun at the Y-12 nuke weapons factory in Tennessee

Wackenhut has even been called The Shadow CIA: “A big private company – one with a board of former CIA, FBI and Pentagon officials; one in charge of protecting Nuclear-Weapons facilities, nuclear reactors, the Alaskan oil pipeline and more than a dozen American embassies abroad; one with long-standing ties to a radical ring-wing organization; one with 30,000 men and women under arms – secretly helped IRAQ in its effort to obtain sophisticated weapons?”  

To end the growing news media attention on a seemingly corrupt and inept G4S Wackenhut, in 2010 they changed their name to G4S Secure Solutions.  Their contracts include providing ‘security’ for U.S. nuke disaster reactors (as Nuclear Security Services Corporation), including those operated by Entergy.

Christian U.S. military behind child porn and sex abuse! 

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80% increase of Indian Point radiation leak, in less than one week!

10 February 2016 (16:43 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 21 Bahman 1394/01 Jumada al-Ula 1437/03 Geng Yin 4714

The inept Entergy has revealed an 80% increase in the radiation leak first discovered at the end of last week!  This ongoing nuclear disaster is taking place about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of New York City.

Last week all three water monitoring wells showed a sudden increase in radiation, with one well emmitting a 65-thousand percent increase in tritium radiation!  Administrators claim groundwater for drinking is not being affected (yeah, try that on the residents of Flint, Michigan).

Entergy administrators are now whining that the real reason they’re getting all the negative attention is because state government officials want to shutdown the nuclear reactors.  Apparently they don’t think massive percentages of radiation level increases are the cause for the ‘attention’.

Entergy says the tritium leak probably took place in January when fuel rods were being changed out.  They think water used to keep the rods cool might have overflowed into drains.

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65,000% explosion of radiation in New York!

07 February 2016 (09:08 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 18 Bahman 1394/27 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/29 Wu Yin 4713

Control freak governor Andrew Cuomo is really freaking out after the Indian Point nuclear power plant revealed a spike in radiation leaks of 65-thousand percent!

The nuke disaster reactors are being man-handled by a company called Entergy.  Administrators admitted that water contaminated with tritium has been flooding out of the nuke plant!  The 65-thousand% increase in radiation was found in one of three monitoring wells near the facility.

Indian Point is 25 miles north of New York City and generates 30% of NYC’s electricity.  It sits along the Hudson River.  Inept Entergy administrators claim they don’t know where the leak is coming from!

Idaho National Lab kills 471 Idahoans!

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Idaho National Lab kills 471 Idahoans!

14 December 2015 (01:41 UTC-07 Tango 01)/23 Azar 1394/02 Rabi’a’-Awwal 1437/04 Wu Zi (11th month) 4713

“My dad’s dying wish was don’t let them get away with this and don’t ever work out there.”–Steve Bailey, son of INL worker who died of radiation

Days after news source McClatchy and the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute revealed the U.S. nuclear industry has killed off at least 33-thousand 480 nuclear employees, the data wrested from the hands of the U.S. Department of Labor shows at least 471 Idahoans were killed by radiation they were exposed to at the Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne West.

That number is just for those families the federal government compensated,  it’s just 37% of all Idaho families who filed a claim for the death of a relative who died from possible radiation contamination!

INL admits “nobody really knows what’s going on.”

Nuclear Regulatory Commission investigating a company called International Isotopes after an employee was sent to an Idaho Falls hospital for being exposed to more than a year’s worth of radiation.

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has been accused of contributing to the WIPP disaster. 

Whistleblower reveals INL violates its own rules!

France & Idaho connection to Fukushima & WIPP!

Idaho INL Official statements ominously similar to statements made by Japanese Nuclear Officials 

Idaho National Laboratory sending Radiation Robots to Japan

INL Nuclear Jet Engines, EBR-1, and Lead-lined Train

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U.S. nuclear industry conducting genocide on nuke workers!

13 December 2015 (05:42 UTC-07 Tango 01)/22 Azar 1394/01 Rabi’a’-Awwal 1437/03 Wu Zi (11th month) 4713

A year long review of detailed information wrested from the hands of the U.S. Department of Labor by legal action shows that 33-thousand 480 U.S. nuke industry workers died as a direct result of contamination!

70-million government records from the past 70 years were reviewed by news organization McClatchy, and the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.  However, the number of people listed as killed directly by their nuke industry jobs are based only on cases where the government admitted to and then compensated the victim’s families.  McClatchy investigators pointed out that the federal government intentionally dumbs down the actual number of victims.

The investigation also revealed that current radiation standards are not reducing the number of people being exposed to radiation.

Japan admits Fukushima workers dying of cancer!