Fukushima farmers return to decontaminated land ABC News

Fukushima clean-up since 2011... 5% of homes 'decontaminated'.. really.....

“So, the mountains may appear pretty, but even these locations are contaminated by radiation as well — and I thought that approach was more me.”

Photographer in Fukushima Prefecture
 
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“So, the mountains may appear pretty, but even these locations are contaminated by radiation as well — and I thought that approach was more me.”

It is this juxtaposition — the radioactive elephant in the beautiful room of nature, as it were — that invests his otherwise picturesque and seasonal shots of lush forests, valleys and foliage with a haunting, invisible presence.

As if to prove Imai’s point, the trail to our lookout point on Mount Higakure from the Sakashita Dam — which was a popular fishing spot for carp and smelt before the reactor meltdowns — offered stunning panoramic views of Fukushima’s Abukuma mountain range and the Pacific coastline. Yet, though radiation will force residents to regard the landscape quite differently for an untold time to come, at first glance it’s as if contamination has yet to taint the cyclical nature of Mother Earth in these parts.

But then that reality intrudes. Returning to the base of the mountain overlooking the manmade lake behind the dam, we find a public radiation-monitoring post indicating a reading of 0.44μSv/hour — roughly 40 times the level in Tokyo on the same day.

Moving on from there, before heading back to Tokyo we decide to drop by the abandoned tsunami-ravaged town of Tomioka, which had been off-limits until just recently. There, a mere 10 km from the nuclear plant, we were chastened to find the radiation readings were almost 10 times those by the dam — some 400 times Tokyo levels at the same time on the same day.

Meanwhile, though casual visitors in such irradiated parts may see evidence of the government’s decontamination efforts and think effective programs are being carried out, it doesn’t take an expert to realize other new problems are kicking in....

For instance, though dozens of cleanup workers were filling plastic bags with contaminated mud and leaves from hillsides and roads in deserted areas of Futaba close to Tepco’s plant, it was deeply disturbing to see huge mounds of those bags filled with radioactive waste dotting the landscape with nowhere to go......

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Tokyo University of Marine Science,”8,000,000,000 ~ 93,000,000,000 Bq of Cs-137 can leak to the sea every single day”
Posted by Mochizuki on March 15th, 2013

According to Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tepco was possibly having 16,100,000,000,000 Bq of Cs-137 leak to the sea from 6. 2011 to 5. 2012.

This is 73 times much as the regulated amount to discharge, but if it includes Cs-134, the total amount to have leaked would be way more than the estimate.

From their estimate, 8,000,000,000 ~ 93,000,000,000 Bq of Cs-137 leak to the sea every single day.

So much for dissipation.....

Full article at FD

M 6.1 off Fukushima TEPCO to check both Diaichi and Dianii

http://www.jma.go.jp/jp/quake/



http://gimquakesmap6.com/

Great! Idea to turn Australia into the Nuke toilet of the world.....

Nuclear waste disposal in Australia

Friday 8 March 2013 5:05PM

Terry Krieg (rn_online@your.abc.net.au)

IMAGE: A FACILITY IN AUSTRALIA TO DISPOSE OF NUCLEAR WASTE COULD CREATE 20,000 INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT JOBS, 2,500 OPERATIONAL JOBS AND GENERATE $2.3 BILLION PER YEAR IN TAXES AND ROYALTIES, ACCORDING TO ACCESS ECONOMICS.(SPL CREATIVE)

A member of the Australian Nuclear Forum, Terry Krieg, presents the other side to the nuclear waste argument. He believes there are great opportunities—economic and environmental—for Australia if we were to become world leaders in the removal and safe burial of nuclear waste.

Now, how is the waste handled? Since the beginning in the late ‘50s on exit from the reactor the spent fuel rods (the waste) are suspended in cooling ponds under several metres of water. I inspected such ponds in 1981 while visiting the Pickering nuclear power station in Toronto, Canada. The fuel assemblies remain in the ponds for three years by which time their radiation levels have reduced to about 1 per cent of the level on exit from the reactor. They are then placed in above-ground cool air storage where they remain for about 30 years, by which time they are suitable for deep burial in a suitable site.

Current storage is achieved safely on site where the power is generated, unlike waste from coal power with millions of tonnes of solids which have to be dumped and the millions of tonnes of CO2 which are dumped mostly in the atmosphere. Since the early 1960s high-level nuclear materials have been moved through cities, across the countryside and over oceans with never an accident which leaked nuclear materials into the environment.

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Sound like familiar drivel?

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/nuclear-waste-disposal-in-australia/4561412

More on the Mystery Black substance extreme radioactivity levels — Over 170,000 CPM Japan! Near schools, post offices....

 Here is the Rad chart to Verify the Geiger counts (click to enlarge)

Three Soma (Fukushima) High School girls write and perform their original play, “Unheard Voices.” Powerful truths emerge from this heartfelt piece of student theatre.

Unheard Voices (with English Subtitles) by thedeaconrulz

RT report on the implications for Nuke power, the lies about Carbon footprints and the Effects on the US power supply debate... beautiful...

Spent Fuel pool 4 (the one that is full of fuel and mox(?) rods)......... is documented to be leaking........ say hello world Plutonium...

WOMEN OF FUKUSHIMA: DOCUMENTARY SHORT AWARDS: BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

DOCUMENTARY SHORT AWARDS
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
WOMEN OF FUKUSHIMA
Director: Paul Johannessen
2012 | Japan
27 min
http://socialimpactmediaawards.com/portfolio-item/women-of-fukushima

Fukushima water into the Oceans? SAY NO!

Add your thoughts here....

TEPCO seeks permission to dump groundwater from Fukushima plant into ocean

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National May. 14, 2013 - 07:00AM JST ( 18 )

TOKYO — 

Officials from Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) on Monday met with a Fukushima fisheries cooperative to seek its members’ permission to dump groundwater from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean.

The contaminated water storage has been a problem since early in the accident. TEPCO officials acknowledged last month that a lack of storage space has become a “crisis.” TEPCO has promised to speed up building more reliable steel tanks and eventually empty the underground tanks.

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So, in violation of every Global nuclear treaty they want permission to spill it (not that it hasn't already been ongoing), into the Global oceans, due to storage issues......

I have nothing more to say.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/tepco-seeks-permission-to-dump-groundwater-from-fukushima-plant-into-ocean?utm_campaign=jt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jt_newsletter_2013-05-14_AM

A survey response to Question 8.. "Do you have a comment"

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We have proof from day one that we were being lied to. I myself have TWO BOOKS filled with the early daily TEPCO & IAEA reports, including the test sample reports and other research. The lies we were being fed even from the beginning has ALWAYS been nothing less than an insulting blow to my intelligence, and, rights as a human being on this planet. I would like these perpetrators and enablers of deceit in Fukushima, in the IAEA, and, in EVERY nuclear research facility or regulatory agency for the past 80 years to know that the destruction of this planet and it's inhabitants is in their hands. The irony is the very fact that they do not view their folly and deceit as anything more than the 'way things work.' Between the nuclear industry and chemical companies like Dow and Monsanto, the day is coming that the Earth will be largely populated by genetically and physically flawed humans of questionable health and intelligence who will have lowered ability to keep humanity intact. I'd like to know when truth will surface. Fish and other sea food is no longer safe, many produce and food products from the West Coast of North America have been affected. I am sad to be afraid to be outside when it rains...which was one of my lifelong pleasures. Our planet is being bombarded by an irreversible assault in Japan, but, THAT is the one they COULD NOT HIDE. It is time for the blanket end of Nuclear Power plants worldwide. Just because this industries lobbyists and crafty 'scientists' mange to skew data, bury incidents, and, perpetuate lies to convince the world their industry is safe, does not make it safe. Which plant will be next? The age and structural integrity of existing plants are already reasons for grave concerns, but, as the incidents --yes, more than one-- in Japan show, the nuclear power industry always manages to do and say what it wants. One look at the pictures of those 'happy Japanese farmers'' 'proudly' holding up their grossly enlarged produce with a smiling face IS PROOF that they are/have been from the start trying to condition the world to believe that Fukushima is safe. The hopes and futures of people worldwide has been compromised, while we must live with the fact that we continue to be lied to. Those in power have lost all credibility. Civilization is broken, trust is lost, and it's only a matter of time until the silent sins of this industry is the visible face of mankind. I am beyond sad, and mourn for us all.

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Enough said really

Children clean highly irradiated pool without protection... look at the ambient atmospheric radiation!....