Fukushima nuclear reactor 3 in “cold shutdown” but boiling!

(Source) http://nuclear-news.net/2013/07/26/fukuxshima-nuclear-reactor-3-in-cold-shutdown-but-boiling/

BBC: It’s boiling somewhere inside Fukushima Unit No. 3 — Reactor supposed to be in cold shutdown — Situation ‘worrying’ http://enenews.com/bbc-boiling-inside-fukushima-unit-3-reactors-supposed-be-cold-shutdown-situation-worrying

Title: Fukushima nuclear plant: Japan takes steps over sea leak
Source: BBC News
Date: July 23, 2013
h/t Anonymous tip
[...]  (Tepco) said steam was seen around the fifth floor of the building housing Reactor No 3 [...]

It is not clear what is causing the steam [...]
The sight of steam rising is worrying because it means somewhere inside the reactor building water is boiling, says the BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo.

Th badly damaged reactors are supposed to be in what is called “cold shutdown”; the temperature of the cooling water inside the reactor should be well below boiling point.
It is another sign that Tepco still does not fully know what is going on inside the damaged reactors [...]
See also: AFP: ‘Fukushima reactor site engulfed by steam’ — Kyodo: ‘Something like steam’ coming from unknown source at Unit No. 3 — Tepco: ‘Continuously wafting through the air’ — Work to remove rubble suspended

Fukushima steps up children's thyroid recheck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdN7boQLX94&feature=c4-overview&list=UUQHopfPwfFjn37JgO1l-axg 5m35s-
MsMilkytheclown1
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130724_28.html
Fukushima Prefecture has taken steps to facilitate the re-examination of children found with lumps in their thyroid glands following the 2011 nuclear crisis.
Only one hospital had been conducting the re-examination in the prefecture in northeastern Japan.
The prefectural government has added 2 more hospitals to carry out the examinations. One started work on Wednesday and examined 5 children. The other is to follow on Friday.
Prefectural officials took the step because only one-third of the children requiring re-examination have been able to undergo the procedure.
Fukushima is conducting regular checks of the thyroid glands of 360,000 people who were 18 or younger when the nuclear crisis began.
That's out of concern that radioactive materials emitted by the damaged reactors could accumulate in children's thyroids, possibly causing cancer.
Children found with a lump 5.1 millimeters or larger are supposed to undergo a thorough recheck. That includes an ultrasound examination and blood and urine tests.

The re-examination is taking time. As of the end of March, only one-third of about 1,100 children had been re-examined.
A doctor involved in the examinations expressed hope that the expanded program will help residents feel more at ease over their health.
Jul. 24, 2013 - Updated 10:23 UTC
(Editor's note) It sounded like they appear to be doing something but unless they take longer time to examine the children, they won't be able detect cysts as much as they meant to detect.

Fukushima nuclear plant cleanup costs – $50 billion and climbing

(Source)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/with-fukushima-nuclear-plant-still-leaking-japan-cleanup-bill-soars-to-50bn-8730832.html
With Fukushima nuclear plant still leaking, Japan clean-up bill soars to $50bn Many are sceptical that government-led effort will make area habitable again THE INDEPENDENT, DAVID MCNEILL TOKYO
WEDNESDAY 24 JULY 2013   Japanese researchers say the cost of cleaning up from the Fukushima nuclear disaster could top $50bn (£32.6bn), more than four times the amount allocated by the government.
The figure does not include compensation for those affected by the explosion and the subsequent fallout, or the multibillion-dollar price tag for decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which the
government and regulators say will take at least 40 years to complete…….. Read more »

Bloggers and Journalists, time to fight back against oppression ブロガーやジャーナリストたち、今、弾圧に向かって、戦うとき！ ユネスコからの提案： ブロガーやジャーナリスト活動家のための安全保障への第一歩

(Source)

http://nuclear-news.net/2013/07/13/53997/

(Translation by Mia)

 

UNESCO extends its call for proposals: Research on the Safety of Online Media Actors Doing Journalism

ユネスコは, 提案書期限申し込みを、遅らせる必要性提案（書）の受付期間の延長を、決定：

インター ネットメデイアをとおして、活動をしているジャーナリストたちの安全についての調査

12.07.2013 – Communication & Information Sector

２０１３年７月１２日　－　コミュニケーションと情報の部門

Image source ; http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2280613/gchq-prism-allegations-to-be-investigated-by-the-intelligence-
UNESCO launches a call for research proposals in order to produce a qualitative picture of cases around the world linked to guaranteeing the safety of journalists using digital media. The research will analyse the role of governments, intergovernmental organizations, civil society and the media in the protection of online media actors. It will also provide guidelines, good practices and policy recommendations on how to respect the right to freedom of expression in the digital environment.
ユネスコは、インターネットメデイアを使って活動しているジャーナリストの安全を保障するための一案として、世界中で何が起きているか、その実態を把握するための調査を立案しました。調査は、こうしたイン ターネットで発言する人々の保護にかかわって政府、政府間の諸組織、市民運動団体、メデイアが果たす役割についての分析を行おうというもので、これによっ てインターネット上での言論の自由の権利を尊重する方向への指針や良識、奨励すべき方針なども提供されることになります。

Interested researchers and organizations are invited to submit their proposals by 31 July 2013.

関心のある研究者、機関からの申請書出願を本年の7月31日まで受付けています。

Parallel to unprecedented diffusion of online media and digital communication worldwide, there is a worrying trend that websites of news media, human rights organizations, critical bloggers, and other individuals or organizations disseminating information have increasingly become targets of illegitimate surveillance, hacking and attacks from various sources ranging from State-based actors to third parties.

インターネット、デジタルメデイア上でのコミュニケーションがこ れまで前例を見ないほどに世界中に広まるなか、ニュースメデイア、人権関連の機関、批判的発言をするブロガー、個人的或いは組織的に情報伝播に携わる人々 が自国政府やその他による非合法な監視活動やハッキング（＝コンピュータ－への不法侵入）、攻撃などの標的にされる例が激増してしているという懸念の声 があがっている。

 More extremely, some media actors are being killed for their online journalism. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists out of 50 of those journalists who were killed in the first part 2012, a total of 17 were online journalists. In turn, Reporters without Borders has registered the killing of 39 netizens and citizen journalists by late 2012.

ある数人のジャーナリストが彼らの供給したネット情報が理由で、殺されてしまった極端な例もあります。

[ジャーナリストを守る委員会] によると、ジャーナリスト５０人のうち、２０１２年の前半に殺された数は、インターネットジャーナリストが、全部で、１７人。　同様に、[国境のないレポーター] の報告によると、殺された一般市民や市民ジャーナリストの数が、３９人にも上っている。

The UN Human Rights Committee in its general comment No. 34 has defined journalism as “a function shared by a wide range of actors, including professional full-time reporters and analysts, as well as bloggers and others who engage in forms of self-publication in print, on the Internet or elsewhere.” The term “journalists” in this envisaged research includes, therefore, all online media actors who do journalism while not ignoring differences amongst them.

国連人権委員会の概説34章によれば、ジャーナリズムとは「プロのフルタイムのレポーターやアナリスト、ブロガー、或いは出版物やインターネット他による自主広報活動に従事する者によって為される機能」と定義されている。したがって、懸案の調査に含まれる「ジャーナリスト」にはインターネット上で広報活動するすべての者が、それぞれの活動内容の特性も考慮の上、当事者として該当することになる。

UNESCO is concerned about the online safety of journalists and its significant human rights implication, particularly on freedom of expression and related privacy protection. This research fits within the Organization’s on-going efforts to implement  the UN Inter-Agency Plan on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity. At the same time, it is clear that there is only limited information available about the extent of online threats and the digital safety literacy of journalists. To that end, UNESCO perceives a need to collect more information on the safety situation of online journalists across the globe.

ユネスコではインターネットジャーナリストたちの安全に関して、それが深刻な人権侵害へと波及すること、特に報道の自由とそれに係わるプライバシーの保護について憂慮しています。懸案の調査は、国連の「ジャーナリストの安全と刑事免責に関しての機関内連携画 策」を継続的に実行しようという意図に沿うものですが、同時に、インターネット上での脅迫や、ジャーナリストのデジタル界での自衛知識については情報が不 足していることは明らかです。そのため、ユネスコではインターネットジャーナリストの安全状況に関しての情報を世界中からより多く収集する必要があると認 識しています。

  UNESCO, therefore, invites interested researchers and organizations to submit their proposals, according to the Terms of Reference, by email to Ms Xianhong Hu, before noon (CET), 31 July 2013. Proposals have to include detailed description of the research methodology, deliverables, timeline and requested funding.

ユネスコは、以上の理由で、.関心のある研究者や機関が、申し込みをするように呼びかけています。　７月３１日の正午が締め切り。　Terms of Reference　にしたがって、Ｘｉａｎｈｏｎｇ　Ｈｕ氏宛に、Ｅｍａｉｌで、ご連絡ください。その際は、細かな調査概要、調査方法、期間と、希望の予算の額を添えて、お申し込みよろしくお願いします。

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/unesco_calls_for_proposals_research_on_the_safety_of_online_media_actors_doing_journalism/back/18256/

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Deposition to UNESCO from a nuclear researcher and UK based blogger

http://nuclear-news.net/2013/07/30/deposition-to-unesco-from-a-nuclear-researcher-and-uk-based-blogger/

Fukushima – Science Media Centres and their part in corrupting truth. 福島－科学Ｍｅｄｉａセンターとその腐敗してしまった真実について 

http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/fukushima-science-media-centres-and.html

Mysterious steam engulfing Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor No. 3

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http://nuclear-news.net/2013/07/24/mysterious-steam-engulfing-fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-reactor-no-3/

AFP: ‘Fukushima reactor site engulfed by steam’ — Kyodo: ‘Something like steam’ coming from unknown source at Unit No. 3 — Tepco: ‘Continuously wafting through the air’ — Work to remove rubble suspended http://enenews.com/just-in-fukushima-reactor-site-engulfed-by-steam-something-like-steam-coming-out-of-unit-no-3-continuously-wafting-through-the-air-work-to-remove-rubble-suspended
Kyodo, July 23, 2013:[... Tepco] said Tuesday it has confirmed “something like steam” is coming out of the No. 3 reactor building again [...Tepco] said one of its monitoring cameras showed what appeared to be steam coming out of the building’s fifth floor just above the reactor container at around 9:05 a.m. Tuesday. The steam continued to be seen at 10:30 a.m.  [...] TEPCO has suspended work to remove rubble at the reactor building due to the apparent steam emission, they said.
Washington Post,July 23, 2013: [...] Tepco also said in an e-mailed statement today that steam from an unknown source that was first spotted near the fifth floor of the Fukushima plant’s No. 3 reactor building on July 18 was seen again this morning. [...]
The Australian, July 23, 2013 (h/t RadChick): Fukushima reactor site engulfed by steam [...] Workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have reported steam inside a battered reactor building for the second time in less than a week. The operator said today steam was seen around the fifth floor of the building housing Reactor No 3 shortly after 9am [...] Steam was spotted in the same area on Thursday [...] with TEPCO saying it did not know for sure what had caused it. [...]
TEPCO Press Release, July 23, 2013: Steam Found Near the Central Part of the Fifth Floor (Equipment Storage Pool Side) of Unit 3 Reactor Building at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Follow-up Information 9) [...] This is a follow-up report on the statuses of steam found wafting through the air near the central part of the fifth floor (equipment storage pool side) of Unit 3 on July 18. At around 9:05 AM today (July 23), we found steam coming from near the central part of the fifth floor (equipment storage pool side) of Unit 3 by a camera. [...] The steam is continuously wafting through the air as of 10:30 AM. We will continue to monitor the status closely.
Watch the latest Fukushima nuclear plant videos here

Fukushima – Science Media Centres and their part in corrupting truth. 福島－科学Ｍｅｄｉａセンターとその腐敗してしまった真実について

Posted by nuclear-news.net

11 July 2013

By arclight2011part2

I would like to bring to your attention the mechanism by which science journalism is being undermined.. It may explain George Monbiot`s conversion to the nuclear industry among other things. This mechanism is the Science Media Centers of the world and the nuclear industry driven PR machine

科学ジャーナリストの地位が弱体化しているメカニズムについて、目を向けてほしいと思います。　多分このことから、原発関連についてのGeorge Monbiot氏の会話の内容が、理解できるであろうと私は、思っています。このメカニズムは、世界の科学メディアセンターや広告マシーンと化してしまった原発産業のことを、物語っている。 

There is growing evidence that the existence of SMCs is also encouraging news organizations to downgrade science reporters. Recently the newspaper The Australian sacked its science reporter, Leigh Dayton. The reason she was given by the editors was..

ＳＭＣの存在によって、ニュース機関等が、科学報告を軽視する傾向が強まってきている。最近、オーストラリアの新聞は、科学レポーターであるＬｅｉｇｈ　Ｄａｙｔｏｎ氏を、解雇した。　その理由は、その新聞社の編集者から、得た理由によると、

“they could rely on the supply of press releases from the Australian SMC so that their general reporters could write the science news”.
"一般のレポーターたちが科学ニュース記事をかけるぐらい十分な情報がオーストラリアSMCからの広報から得られるため、だという。"

A large empirical study carried out recently by Andy Williams of Cardiff University, UK also confirmed that..

Ｃａｒｄｉｆｆ大学のＡｎｄｙ　Ｗｉｌｌｉａｍｓ氏が、手がけた大量の実証的研究によると、英国も、以下のことについて、正式に、認めた。

"Science PR was increasing and independent science journalism was decreasing."

"科学の報道発表は増えてきているが、独立した科学ジャーナリストが減っている。"

More here>>

http://nuclear-news.net/2013/07/11/fukushima-science-media-centres-and-their-part-in-corrupting-truth/


(Editor's note)
Science Media Centre of Japan has been inactive since 12/3/13.  Last article on Fukushima disaster was June 2012.

http://smc-japan.org/eng/  

Plutonium from Sellafield in all children's teeth 英国：セラフィールド再処理工場による汚染で、子供たちの歯からプルトニウム検出

(Source) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/nov/30/greenpolitics.health?CMP=twt_gu
"Although UK Government said risk is "minute", they admitted Sellafield plant is the source of contamination."
Antony Barnett, public affairs editor
The Observer, Sunday 30 November 20
Radioactive pollution from the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria has led to children's teeth across Britain being contaminated with plutonium.
The Government has admitted for the first time that Sellafield 'is a source of plutonium contamination' across the country. Public Health Minister Melanie Johnson has revealed that a study funded by the Department of Health discovered that the closer a child lived to Sellafield, the higher the levels of plutonium found in their teeth.
Johnson said: 'Analysis indicated that concentrations of plutonium... decreased with increasing distance from the west Cumbrian coast and its Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant - suggesting this plant is a source of plutonium contamination in the wider population.'
Johnson claimed the levels of plutonium are so minute that there is no health risk to the public. But this is disputed by scientists, MPs and environmental campaigners who have called for an immediate inquiry into how one of the world's most dangerous materials has been allowed to continue to contaminate children's teeth. There have long been claims of clusters of childhood leukaemia around Sellafield.

In the late 1990s researchers collected more than 3,000 molars extracted from young teenagers across the country during dental treatment and analysed them. To their surprise they found traces of plutonium in all the teeth including those from children in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Alarmingly, they discovered that those living closer to Sellafield had more than twice the amount of those living 140 miles away.
Plutonium is a man-made radioactive material and the only source of it in Britain is from Sellafield. The plant, which reprocesses nuclear fuel from reactors, still discharges plutonium into the Irish Sea.
The original research was carried out in 1997 by Professor Nick Priest who was working for the UK Atomic Energy Authority. At the time the conclusions of the research received little attention because the study concluded that the contamination levels were so minuscule they were thought to pose an 'insignificant' health risk.
But earlier this year the Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters, looking at health risks posed by radioactive materials, examined Priest's study. Some of the committee's members have now cast doubt on the conclusions that plutonium in children's teeth posed no health risk.
Professor Eric Wright, of Dundee University Medical School, is one of the country's leading experts on blood disorders and a member of the committee. He believes that the tiny specks of plutonium in children's teeth caused by Sellafield radioactive pollution might lead to some people falling ill with cancer.
He said: 'There are genuine concerns that the risks from internal emitters of radiation are more hazardous [than previously thought]. The real question is by how much. Is it two or three times more risky... or more than a hundred? ...............

Sunday, 17 February 2013

STRONTIUM-90 IN BABY TEETH AS A FACTOR IN EARLY CHILDHOOD CANCER 

http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/strontium-90-in-baby-teeth-as-factor-in.html