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Five Years Later: TEPCo screws up another nuclear reactor, admits it can’t stop the deadly water! Government screws over thousands of survivors!

08 March 2016 (15:15 UTC-07 Tango 01) 18 Esfand 1394/28 Jumada al-Ula 1437/30 Xin Mao 4714

Five years after the ongoing nuclear melt downs at Fukushima Daiichi, another nuclear power plant is in trouble!  Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reported the sudden unexplained movement of a highly explosive nuclear fuel rod!

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, in Nigata Prefecture, is operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company, the same outfit operating Fukushima Daiichi.

Reator 5 of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa has 185 explosive fuel rods and during the operation of some valves one of the rods moved out of place.  If rods touch each other, that’s all she wrote man!  TEPCo administrators swear the operation of valves on the reactor should not cause any rods to move.  They say one minute later the rod repositioned itself.  An investigation is underway.

This isn’t the first time Kashiwazaki-Kariwa has been in trouble.  Back in 2007 a transformer exploded and caught fire due to an earthquake, which also released cobalt-60 and chromium-51 into the air.

More proof why you can’t trust TEPCo:  Five years after promising the world that it could handle the nuclear disaster, TEPCo administrators are now going to the government of Fukushima Prefecture for help!  Specifically they’ve admitted to the local government that they can’t handle the ongoing contamination of water, to the tune of 5-hundred tonnes per day!  TEPCo’s Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Officer Masuda Naohiro made the revelation during a recent interview with NHK.

And several anniversary reports by NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) reveal that thousands of homeless disaster survivors are being screwed over not only by the national government, but by local governments as well.

Several prefectures are forcing survivors out of taxpayer funded temporary housing into non-subsidized permanent housing.  Many surviving families are concerned as they have yet to find permanent jobs and can’t afford to pay rent.  One news reports revealed that disaster survivors are intentionally being shunned by employers! Some prefectures are playing a shell game, shuffling survivors from one housing project to the next, claiming it’s part of a plan to provide them with permanent housing.

Recently the Reconstruction Agency revealed that thousands of people have died, and hundreds of thousands are still in temporary homes.  One of the reasons for so many deaths of survivors is the game that’s being played with their housing, and health administrators warn the ongoing games by government will lead to more deaths by stress.

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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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Confirmed: Population death spiral for Japan!

26 February 2016 (03:34 UTC-07 Tango 01) 07 Esfand 1394/17 Jumada al-Ula 1437/19 Geng Yin 4714

The results of the 2015 census prove what social administrators in Japan have been warning about for several years; massive population decline.

Over the past five years Japan’s population has suffered a net decline of 947-thousand people!  That even includes the increase in foreigners who’ve moved to Japan!

The eastern Asian nation is now in an official population death spiral as deaths far outpace births and the influx of foreign residents combined!

Not surprising the prefectures suffering the highest population decline are Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, the ones hardest hit by the 2011 quake-tsunami and nuclear disasters.

Nursing shortage continues for Japan, only 30 applicants pass new certification test!

“Developed Country” status for Japan to end, could officially regress to “Less-Developed” 

One Year Later: Big Exodus continues; most number of people flee Japan since 1950! 

Airline pilot? Need a job? Japan needs you! 

Japan’s nuclear family Myth busted: Family households now at Record low. 

130,000 Japanese flee 11 March 2011, disaster areas!

Think your taxes are bad here in the U.S.? Try 45% income tax and 10% sales tax, welcome to Japan!

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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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Japan admits Fukushima workers dying of cancer!

20 October 2015 (04:48 UTC-07 Tango 01)/28 Mehr 1394/06 Muharram 1437/08 Bing-Xu (9th month) 4713

“Cannot deny the causal relationship between his radiation exposure and his illness.”-Japanese Ministry of Labor statement

Japan’s Ministry of Labor confirms at least one nuke industry employee is dying of leukemia caused by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi explosions.

The employee was hit with 15.7 millisieverts (mSv) of radiation during the explosions.  His total ‘official’ exposure is 19.8 mSv.  These amounts are far less than what pro-nuke industry ‘trolls’ on the internet say will cause cancer.

Japanese news sources say 45-thousand people are still working at the China Syndrome Fukushima Daiichi and more than 21-thousand have been exposed to annual radiation levels of at least 5 mSv.

This admission comes two weeks after several international news reports said independent organizations were reporting a 50-fold increase in the rates of cancer in children near the GE designed nuclear disaster reactors.

Earless bunny found in the Fukushima No Go Zone.

Imperialist Japan to make 6,000 nuclear bombs!

Idaho National Laboratory admits “nobody really knows what’s going on.” Radioactive trash dump in U.S. on fire? 

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Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation Fallout: INL admits “nobody really knows what’s going on.” Radioactive trash dump in U.S. on fire?

19 September 2015 (12:24 UTC-07 Tango 01)/28 Shahrivar 1394/05 Dhu l-Hijja 1436/07 Yi-You (8th month) 4713

“The Agency has for many years made a major contribution to development by making nuclear science and technology available in areas such as food production, water management and agriculture. Our work deserves greater recognition.”-Amano Yukio, UN IAEA

India: “Over the past four months, sporadic rainfall saw Mumbai’s UV Index (UVI) levels touch the ‘high risk’ category. Their immediate effect can be seen in form of sun burns, long-term exposure can lead to skin cancer and cataract.  ‘The sporadic rain pattern is responsible for the high UV radiations in the city this monsoon,’ said Gufran Beig, project director, System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), IITM. ‘When (the number of) rainy days are less followed by a long period of sunny days, UV radiation levels peak.’”

Ukraine: “International heavy lift company Mammoet and its client Novarka have successfully connected the two halves of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. This was needed following the catastrophic nuclear accident in 1986.”

United States: “Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), ranking member of the House Communications Subcommittee, are accusing the FCC of failing to enforce safety guidelines on cell tower worker exposure to radiofrequency radiation, saying they are putting the health and safety of a quarter of a million workers at risk.”

“Exposure to high doses of radiation triggers a number of potentially lethal effects. Among the most severe is the gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity syndrome caused by the destruction of the intestinal barrier, resulting in bacterial translocation, systemic bacteremia, sepsis, and death….   ….TP [Thrombin-derived Peptide] 508 may be an effective emergency nuclear countermeasure that could be delivered within 24 h post exposure to increase survival and delay mortality, giving victims time to reach clinical sites for advanced medical treatment.”

“Scientists have recently developed a new hybrid solar energy system that harnesses all of the sun’s radiation…..”

Idaho:  Researchers at the INL are on the verge of creating a system to track nuclear waste from the oil industry.  The oil industry uses radioactive material as part of its oil extraction process.  The new system will be tested in North Dakota because “It’s the Wild West out there. Waste sites are taking the wrong stuff, or they’re dumping it in fields. Nobody really knows what’s going on.”-Doug Akers, Idaho National Laboratory

Massachusetts: “As a resident of Plum Island, Newbury, I are deeply concerned about the threat posed by Seabrook Station — the threat of radiation release. If a radiation release were to occur, evacuating this area would be impossible.”

“…parents filed a lawsuit claiming that the Fay School in Southborough has ‘high-intensity Wi-Fi emissions’ that have harmed their son……he has a condition called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome (EHS)”

Missouri: “…radiation from the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton has spread to neighboring properties. The reports also suggested that an underground fire at the neighboring Bridgeton Landfill is moving toward radioactive waste and could reach it as soon three to six months. The landfills’ owner, Republic Services, has vehemently maintained that the situation at the landfills is under control.”

“Loretta Copeland is shutting the doors on her dog grooming business on Natural Bridge Road, near McKelvey Road, about a mile from the landfill. She says she’s afraid of getting cancer.  ‘…it just seems like everybody you talk to they either have cancer or they know somebody……..Who wants to buy a grooming shop sitting within one mile from the landfill?’”

New Mexico: “The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant simulated a full-scale emergency response on Wednesday to prepare the facility and community in case an emergency occurred again.”

“The Underground Ventilation System at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is being upgraded to provide additional airflow into the facility’s underground.”

“…burying 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium would be far cheaper and more practical than completing a multibillion-dollar plant that would turn the radioactive material into commercial reactor fuel.”

New York: “The studies found that 50 percent to 75 percent of the animals who were exposed to a potentially lethal dose of radiation died without any treatment. Using Cleveland BioLabs’ Entolimod drug, less than a third of all animals that received the drug died, even when the drug was administered as much as 48 hours after exposure.”

“An upstate New York man faces life in prison after he became the first person ever convicted in the U.S. of trying to acquire a radiation weapon for mass destruction…”

Washington: Hanford to remain Undeclared Interim Storage site “By early 2007 the decision was made to construct a mox fuel plant at the Savannah River Site (SRS), in South Carolina. Construction is 70 percent complete, and some $4.5 billion has been spent.  ……DOE-Headquarters is now considering major/arbitrary changes to the final disposition of MOX, and stopping construction the mos facility at SRS!    DOE’s new path is considering ‘downblending’ (diluting) the weapons grade plutonium and adding it to waste going to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. DOE reports shutting down the SRS mox plant could cost a billion dollars.”

“In the near term the cost of dealing with the solid waste would be about $20 million from the DOE Richland Operations Office annual budget, which is about $1 billion a year, according to the state of Washington.”

Washington DC: “In 1981, anthropologists, engineers, nuclear physicists, and others assembled to form the Human Interference Task Force, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Energy and Bechtel Corp. The impetus of the task force, according to a technical report issued a few years later, was to ‘reduce the likelihood of future humans unintentionally intruding on radioactive-waste isolation systems.’”

Japan:  Off the coast of Hokkaido a fish called a Wolffish was caught. The man who caught it says it’s one of the largest Wolffish ever caught.  See internet ‘TV’ news report here.

Proof of arrogant incompetence: “…there was a basic assumption in Japan that the design of nuclear power plants and the safety measures that had been put in place were sufficiently robust to withstand external events of low probability and high consequences….there was a tendency for organizations and their staff not to challenge the level of safety……resulted in a situation where safety improvements were not introduced….”

More proof of government incompetence: “…a team of Japanese researchers report that evacuation following the Fukushima nuclear accident may have been much worse for Japanese citizen’s health than nuclear radiation.”

“Authorities in the small city of Nikko in Japan’s Tochigi Prefecture, some 175 km away from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, have said that at least 334 bags containing radioactive soil have been swept into a tributary of the Kinugawa river, The Asahi Shimbun reports.

According to the city’s authorities, the washed-away waste was only part of hundreds of bags being stored at the Kobyakugawa Sakura Koen park alongside the river. Another 132 bags of waste reportedly rolled down the slopes.” 

‘Black’ helicopters return to California! U.S. will increase radiation contamination limits!