No Known Technology to deal with Fukushima

http://cuttingthegordianknot.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/houston-we-have-a-problem-no-known-technology-to-deal-with-fukushima/
(May 2, 2012)
It was reported today that a U.S. firm named EnergySolutions, which has been involved in the decommissioning of 10 nuclear power plants now aims to garnering multiple contracts for aiding other companies in dismantling Fukushima. This is supposed to also include the spent fuel rods housed there. However…….
Concerning the extraction of fuel debris, which is considered the most challenging process, “There is no technology which may be directly applied,” said Morant…….
This should be the top story in the news every single day because it is the most important thing happening in the world not only right now but in all of recorded history. This is bigger than the global financial crisis, this is bigger than any election, riot, protest and every single war since the dawn of man. It is the definitive event of all human history. If we screw this up we’re all toast. Every single one of us.
Today it has finally been admitted, a fact that many of us have known since the beginning of this nightmare, that there is no strategy and there is no real plan to deal with Fukushima. Here we sit over a year into this thing, radiation washing and raining across the globe and just now it’s being revealed to the greater public that there is no technology developed to handle the situation…..
“It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the whole world depends on NO.4 reactor. This is confirmed by most reliable experts like Dr. Arnie Gundersen or Prof. Fumiaki Koide…….

Another huge anti nuclear demonstration in Japan - There is Enough Electricity in Japan without Restarting Oi Nuclear power plants!

The Japanese government insisted that there would not be enough electricity to meet domestic demand without restarting the Oi Nuclear power plant.  They even said that without nuclear power, deaths might occur in hospitals, which rely on electricity, and this was reported as being the main reason why local governors in the Osaka area agreed to the restart.  How can the government and Prime Minister Noda keep repeating this sort of complete nonsense.    Hospitals have backup power systems for emergencies.   Also, although it is very hot in Japan at the moment, there is more than enough electricity; actually there was about 10% surplus without nuclear power when it became very hot in mid-July even after eight thermal power stations had been shut down soon after the nuclear restart.

(Reference)

http://www.windfarm.co.jp/blog/blog_kaze/post-11289

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/mayumilehr/e/e6e48152752b3f4515d5210c13a1cb86    

Even though two of the reactors at the Oi Nuclear power station have been restarted, Japanese citizens haven’t given up.  This citizens’ demo in front of the Prime Minister’s residential office started with 300 people in March, reaching 200,000 and filling up the pavement and the road near the office just before the Oi reactors were restarted three weeks ago.  Since then, the same number of citizens has been trying to get there every Friday evening.  Despite the difficulties posed by tight control by policemen barricading the area, putting up steel fences between the road and the pavement, and closing three out of four of the exits of the subway stations  nearest to the office, the demo is set to continue and has spread throughout Japan.  Yesterday, thirty different places in Japan held anti-nuclear demos.  On July 16^th, 170,000 people, assembled for a ' Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants - 10 million Rally ' in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo.  This group has collected 7.8million signatures.  More and more Japanese citizens are becoming aware of the deceits perpetrated on them by the government and globally-interconnected nuclear power groups and feel need of expressing of their opinions.

Freelance Japanese journalist Mr. Iwakami mentioned in a recent lecture that when Prime Minister Noda visited US President Obama this April, he promised further US-Japan cooperation based on the nuclear power business without public consent (more than 80% of Japanese citizens don’t want nuclear).  Former Prime Ministers Hatoyama and Kan have been urging Mr. Noda to talk to citizen’s groups face to face, but despite the growing number of anti-nuclear demonstrators, so far he has been refused.

Deformed plants and flowers have been found in different places in the contaminated area in Japan after Fukushima disaster.

http://onodekita.sblo.jp/article/47213885.html

*Deformed plants in south of Ibaragi prefecture.　　http://fukushima-diary.com/       (July 18, 2012)  This site has been posting various kinds of valuable information and data related to Fukushima disaster.

Aubergines are connected under one hull.
It was found in Date city Fukushima, about 61km from Fukushima.： http://www.minpo.jp/pub/topics/hotnews/2012/08/post_742.html

There have been reports on the no. of decrease of birds in Fukushima prefecture.  No wonder because birds have been eating contaminated food including a worm that has 20000BQ/kg cesium. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itaSkTkSQwo&feature=related

The Medical Implications of Fukushima, Chernobyl and the Nuclear Age by Helen Caldicott

http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videos/39682

４４ｍ２０ｓ　Dying Azaleas & Ginko leaves in Tokkyo July 30, 2011

*Chernobyl: A Million Casualties

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc72kT_gFNQ 

(12m.-)

Janette Sherman, M.D., toxicologist and contributing editor of the book Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment talks about how all species including insects, birds, animals, even bees without any exception are damaged by the radiation. 


*(Refer to April 8 article - Many unborn babies die in Fallujah after US bombing of using Depleted Uranium  2 to 3 deformed babies are now  born every day  in Fallujah, sadly to live only for a few hours.　　
http://vimeo.com/38175279


 

Walk Towards a Nuclear Free Future – Handa Shonin Memorial Walk 2012

August 23rd - September 1st 2012

https://we.riseup.net/assets/101994/Ald-Hink%20peace%20walk%202012.pdf             

Rev. Handa was a Buddhist monk, the abbot of Milton Keynes Peace Pagoda and Temple…….  He was a follower of Fujii Guruji who undertook the construction of Peace Pagoda's as a way to raise a spiritual basis for people to unite and turn around the threat to all life.

Protect children! Don’t burn radioactive debris!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFSFDMiWVzU

by E.O.N.- Ecological of Jones Network

They handed their petition of 6000 signatures to Mr. Iwata at the Japanese council in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2011 on behalf of Japanese mothers led by Ms. Tomoe Davis.

The east side of USA has been also affected by the Fukushima disaster.  They understand what’s going through the parents whose children were exposed to the radiation in Japan.  I felt very warming and encouraged by their action.

A Farewell to Nuclear Power Plants: An appeal of seven Japanese scientists and intellectuals

http://worldpeace7.jp/en/modules/pico/index.php?content_id=21

Japan became the victim of both the military use of nuclear power in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of its peaceful utilization in Fukushima.
This is why, the Committee of Seven for World Peace Appeals, shares the sincere wish of many citizens of Japan, in calling upon all the peoples of good-will of the World at large to start a global movement towards the abolition of all military use of nuclear power as well as the closure of all nuclear power plants.

Another Huge Demonstration against Restarting Oi Nuclear Power Plant on July 6th, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhlmXwzi82Y

Even after the Oi plant was restarted, over 150,000 citizens were trying to get to the Prime Minister’s residential office despite the rain and the policemen blocking the exit of the nearest subway station.  (Only one out of 14 was open.)  Here is a video of people trapped in the subway station.    

There was media blackout including NHK which has been a national broadcasting company and drawing its operational expenses from a public viewing fee.  The demo originally started with 300 people in March.  The number of people increased week after week through the internet, reaching over 200,000 just before the Oi Nuclear power station was restarted.  This is the biggest demonstration since the one over the new U.S.-Japan Security treaty in 1970.  Finally, the mainstream media started to report on the demo, although they have been avoiding broadcasting the report during prime time and trying to downplay its size. All Prime Minister Noda said about it was, “There was a big commotion.” 

It’s not really part of Japanese culture to stand up against the government, but many more people are now realizing the importance of expressing themselves and getting themselves heard.  Prime Minister Noda and the government need to listen to them rather than listening to the nuclear industries and big corporations.  Without it they cannot claim that Japan is a democratic country. 

Lessons from Fukushima - Greenpeace report

It was a failure of human institutions to acknowledge real reactor risks, a failure to establish and enforce appropriate nuclear safety standards and a failure to ultimately protect the public and the environment.
This report, commissioned by Greenpeace International, addresses what lessons can be taken away from this catastrophe. The one-year memorial of the Fukushima accident offers a unique opportunity to ask ourselves what the tragedy – which is far from being over for hundreds of thousands of Japanese people – has taught us.
And it also raises the question: are we prepared to learn?

Download the Full report: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/nuclear/2012/Fukushima/Lessons-from-Fukushima.pdf

Download the executive summary: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/nuclear/2012/Fukushima/Lessons-from-Fukushima-ExSum.pdf

“Fukushima disaster was a profoundly manmade disaster” by The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission

http://www.slideshare.net/jikocho/naiic-report-hires         

Although triggered by these cataclysmic events, the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot be regarded as a natural disaster. It was a profoundly manmade disaster – that could and should have been foreseen and prevented. And its effects could have been mitigated by a more effective human response…..

Our report catalogues a multitude of errors and willful negligence that left the Fukushima plant unprepared for the events of March 11. And it examines serious deficiencies in the response to the accident by TEPCO, regulators and the government……

Black Planet Award for TEPCO - ethecon calls for punishment of TEPCO executives

http://www.ethecon.org/en/793
For the bestowal of the International ethecon Black Planet Award 2011 on the people in charge of TEPCO, the Japanese energy company responsible for the MCA at the nuclear plant in Fukushima, a delegation of ethecon members travels to Japan ．．．．．

One year after the onset of the nuclear desaster in Fukushima we have yet to see any substantial consequences dealt to the people responsible for this maximum credible accident. A few managers were replaced by the operating company TEPCO. Now the Japanese government has decided to make further payments to the company dependent on the replacement of all 17 directors. However, there is no talk of criminal charges…..
ethecon - Foundation Ethics & Economics demands that the major share holders be held liable for damages and the decision makers of the energy company be subject to criminal charges. 
Without the faulty decisions of these executives, the nuclear catastrophe may never have happened. These decisions led to the now known structural defects and cost cuts in safety and maintenance. „For them, profit was more important than the protection of the population and the environment“ - this was the comment given by ethecon chairman Axel Köhler-Schnura. „The company´s managers must be held accountable for the humanitarian catastrophe they caused.“……