tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68885304700181435192024-03-18T04:03:34.887+01:00Good Night, and Good Luck!Young and idealistic views on human rights, critical thoughts on Nuclear Power and other topicsPhilippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.comBlogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-91702423009401890872014-03-11T09:44:00.003+01:002014-03-11T09:44:56.639+01:00Fukushima ... ongoing catastrophe for 3 years<div class="p1">
<b>This week, Japan has the tragic obligation to be remembered of 2 catastrophes that will have changed the country forever. There is first of all, the unprecedented Tōhoku earthquake, that rocked the empire of the sun with a 9.0 magnitude quake and the resulting tsunami cost the lives of over 15.000 people. As if this wasn't enough, the Daiichi nuclear power plant suffered 3 fatal meltdowns after being hit by the tsunami. The failure in all cooling systems led to the 2nd biggest release of radioactive material, the biggest since Chernobyl.</b></div>
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The Japanese reactors had been declared virtually prone to failure and accidents by the nuclear lobby. The argument that Nuclear accidents happen only in ramshackled old Soviet plants was finally broken: Not only did the triple meltdown at Daiichi Nuclear Powerplant in Fukushima cause environmental damage by radiation, but the health of the entire Japanese population is put at risk, with huge cost of a meltdown, which TEPCO, the exploiting firm will not be made accountable for. The heavy financial cost of a meltdown is inevitably borne by the public, not by the companies that created and operated the plants. None of the world's 450 nuclear reactors are invulnerable to human error, catastrophes, terrorism or ageing.</div>
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As a reaction to Fukushima and slow evacuation, 160,000 people fled their homes because of radioactive contamination, and continue to live without compensation in inhumane conditions. On this day, FYEG says NO to NUCLEAR POWER, and strongly calls upon the Japanese government to take on the fight of the people from Date-City, Tomioka, Minamisoma, Fukushima and many other cities ravaged by radiation. In a country that suffered the only dropping of a Nuclear bomb on a civil target... twice, we find it highly unusual that the brave people from Fukushima Prefecture are kept alone. On this date we reach out our hearts and thoughts to the victims of the Tōhoku earthquake, the Daiichi nuclear disaster, and all other victims that the civil and military use of nuclear energy have cost mankind.</div>
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This Article was written by Phillippe Schockweiler and published on www.fyeg.org<br />
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Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-28893575343667076462013-11-12T18:09:00.003+01:002013-11-17T19:43:21.774+01:00Mayak – A Chernobyl before Chernobyl<br />
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<i>In
1957, a nuclear accident in the Soviet military complex of Mayak,
left 23.000 square kilometers of the Russian mountain slopes in the
Ural contaminated. </i><i>I organized with a conference </i><i>about
the so called “Kychtym-Disaster” and invited the Russian human
rights lawyer, Nadezhda Kutepova, the only lawyer that seeks justice
for the victims of this immense nuclear accident. Brave Nadya does
not stop in Russia, and fights for her clients rights, even in front
of the Human Rights court in Strasbourg. This is her story:</i><br />
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To tell a
story one must normally know the ending. Truth, is in this case the
ending is far from being written. After the atomic bomb attacks on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many countries began investigating the
possibility of the “bomb”. The Soviet regime, at the height of
their political power was aware that they had a few year gap in
developing their nuclear capacities. It was then that the order came
to build a top secret plutonium enrichment facility and several
reactors at a disclosed location. This location is Mayak, the birth
place of the Soviet bomb. In the peaceful region of the South Urals,
that had known little activities before, accept for Lavrenty Beria's
gulags of course. In a hurry, Stalin dispatched many of his top
scientists to Mayak to build the site, among them, Soviet engineering
and physicist Igor Kurchatov. Supervision of the project was in the
hands of Stalin's closest ally, and notorious secret-police chief
Beria.</div>
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accidents and spills</b></div>
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In
these pioneering days of nuclear exploitation, environmental
standards where never a priority. The reactors and enrichment
facility as well as the
centrifuges were built at an enormous pace, leaving little time and
place to look for a proper way to store low level and medium level
radioactive waste (LLW, MLW). Most of the waste in the 1940s and up
to 1952 was
dumped into the nearby river and complex ecosystem of the “Techa”
. It's only a few years ago that “RosAtom”, the state owned
exploitation conglomerate of nuclear energy in Russia acknowledged,
that this way of disposing of radioactive waste, was
a common practice up until 2005. The Federal Russian Prosecutor's
Office later found out, that in 2004 alone, 60'000m3 were released
into the Techa river. By today, most of the Techa must be regarded as
LLW to MLW, although the river is still the water reserve of many
cities and villages in the Ural.</div>
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earth “Lake Karachay”</b></div>
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The
site of Mayak didn't proof well for supplying cooling water. The
river Techa was too shallow and the next big cooling lake Kyzyltash
became rapidly so contaminated as it was an open(!) cooling system.
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After
numerous accidents, the most crucial one, happened on September 29
September 1957. An underground tank filled with medium to high level
nuclear waste exploded. The explosion, visible for many kilometers
left inhabitants scared. 23.000 square kilometers had been
permanently contaminated. The fallout region is up to this date known
as the “East Ural Radioactive trace”. As a consequence 34
villages and towns were evacuated, 20.000 people displaced and
evacuated. The leftover radioactive waste from the accident (20
million cu) was dumped into Lake Karachay, up until today known as
the most polluted place on the planet. The Lake was covered
with concrete blocks to prevent sediment changes, as a huge dust
storm left 400.000 people contaminated in 1967. With a concentration
of 12-times the radioactive isotopes that were liberated in the
Chernobyl accidents, a stay of 4-5 minutes would result in a deadly
dose followed by acute radiation sickness and death by organ failure.</div>
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The
contaminated region around the southern Ural city of Chelyabinsk has
a unique feature: Here some people suffer from the consequences of
radiation in the 3<sup>rd</sup> generation. The workers that build
the plant, liquidators from the 1957 and 1967 nuclear events,
inhabitants of the south Ural. It goes that far that entire families
have three generations of people dying of the consequences of the
Mayak accidents. The errors and faulty plants existence and records
were only published as a consequence of the Glasnost and Perestroika
movements in the Soviet Union in 1990.
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Since it
is hard to pinpoint the responsible of these acts, the victims are
left alone and face difficult conditions such as poor access to
public health care.
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Nadezhda
Kutepova fights for the rights of these people. As a Russian human
rights lawyer, she is representing her clients, victims from the
contaminated region of the South Ural radioactive trace region in
front of different courts in Russia and in front of the Human Rights
court in Strasbourg.</div>
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Nadezhda,
who lost both her parents and grandmother to “Mayak”. Her
grandmother was one of the nuclear engineers assisting Kurchatov in
building the Soviet bomb, her father was a liquidator of 1957 and her
mother a physician in the emergency services of the site. The cases
that Nadezhda takes on, are eerie examples of how Nuclear energy and
weapon production is a threat to human life. On one hand, she has
cases of victims from the early years of exploitation of Mayak:
liquidators from 1957, children and pregnant women that were
forcefully enlisted to destroy crops and fields that were heavily
contaminated, 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> generation victims
that suffer from genetic diseases, leukemia, cancer or other
radiation-related diseases. Many of these liquidators and clean up
experts where detailed to Chernobyl in 1986 to help with the
unprecedented clean up task and building of the sarcophagus. Still
today, there are cases or birth defects where Nadezhda fights for
justice, with many cases won in front of regional and the Human
rights court in Strasbourg. Her work has earned her a Nuclear Free
Future Award in the Category “Resistance”.
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ARTE
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<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.arte.tv/fr/russie-ozersk-ville-secrete-nucleaire/3791320,CmC=3791326.html"><span lang="en-US">http://www.arte.tv/fr/russie-ozersk-ville-secrete-nucleaire/3791320,CmC=3791326.html</span></a></u></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Interview:</span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mifSiUvzh9A"><span lang="en-US">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mifSiUvzh9A</span></a></u></span></span><span lang="en-US"><br /></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.wecf.eu/english/articles/2009/06/courtcase-planetofhopes.php"><span lang="en-US">http://www.wecf.eu/english/articles/2009/06/courtcase-planetofhopes.php</span></a></u></span></span><span lang="en-US"><br /></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.chernobylcongress.org/speakers/artikel/5730b1ae9f5c73c4f4924d6f1478ea94/-0782c08f06.html"><span lang="en-US">http://www.chernobylcongress.org/speakers/artikel/5730b1ae9f5c73c4f4924d6f1478ea94/-0782c08f06.html</span></a></u></span></span></div>
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<i>“This time no one dropped a bomb on us … We set the stage, we committed the crime with our own hands, we are destroying our own lands, and we are destroying our own lives.” </i></div>
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<i> Haruki Murakami, Japanese best-selling author and philosopher</i></div>
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The past two weeks were a breakthrough for the awareness of the situation in Fukushima...internationally. Whereas International media are quite accurately depicting the worsening situation in Fukushima and quite correctly pointing out the high chance of an international decade long catastrophe, the Japanese Media are still in a total blackout. This ignorance peaked yesterday in the reopening of the beaches in Fukushima City when international experts warn of a possible thousand year long contamination of the food chain and life in the Pacific ocean.</div>
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<i>"The leak, which has not been plugged, is so contaminated that a person standing 50 cm away would, within an hour, </i><b><i>receive a radiation dose five times the average annual global limit for nuclear workers. After 10 hours, a worker in that proximity to the leak would develop radiation sickness </i></b><i>with symptoms including nausea and a drop in white blood cells" </i>(via Japan Today via Reuters)</div>
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<b>Water from clean up processes but also tsunami water continues to sink into the ground</b>, thus <b>poisoning the groundwater but also escaping in large amounts into the Pacific</b>. This process cannot be stopped. We fail the technology to stop such processes. </div>
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<i>"Frankly, I don’t believe so. I think </i><b><i>we will continue to release radioactive material into the ocean for 20 or 30 years at least. </i></b><i>They have to pump the water out of the areas surrounding the nuclear reactor. But frankly, this water is the most radioactive water I’ve ever experienced. I work directly over a nuclear reactor cores during refueling outages. And the water directly over a nuclear reactor core when the plant is operating is a thousand times less radioactive than this water. (Arie Gundersen via GlobalResearch.org)"</i></div>
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July, 2013: It is believed that <b>more than 5,000 tons of radioactive water still remain in the pit ... and trenches</b> after flowing from the No. 2 reactor building to the turbine building and, then, into the pit.</div>
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July 28 : A cable trench running under the turbine building of the No. 2 reactor [...] <b>contained 2.35 billion becquerels [per liter] of cesium and 750 million becquerels of other, unnamed radioactive substances, including strontium</b>, that emit beta rays. (Japan Today)</div>
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... Probably because it is now clear that the saturation of the ground from all the pumping water for cooling the several reactors and spent fuel pools has destabilized the foundations of the buildings, TEPCO is bringing forward its operation to try and deal with what is perhaps the most dangerous of the four sites, t<b>he spent fuel pond of Reactor 4. For this pond contains a truly enormous amount of radioactive material: 1,331 spent fuel grids amounting to 228.3 tons of Uranium and Plutonium buried inside a swimming pool which has already dried out once and exploded. </b>That explosion blasted a significant, but unknown, quantity of lethally radioactive bits and pieces of fuel element around the site (where I heard they were bulldozed into the ground - who knows?), but it also blew the top off the building, covered the fuel elements under the water with rubble and pieces of crane machinery, and no doubt twisted and melted a large proportion of the remaining spent fuel. T<b>hen what happens? Not quite Armageddon, but as far as Japan is concerned, almost. I bet they have contingency plans to evacuate the northern island to Korea, China, anywhere. A lot of this radiation will end up in the USA, a long way downwind, admittedly, but then there is an awful lot of radioactivity involved.</b> </div>
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<b>The mass dumping of highly radioactive water (measured at 7.5 million times the normal allowed levels) into the Pacific Ocean is not just an environmental disaster; it’s also a violation of international law. </b>The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, passed in 1972, forbids nations and companies from dumping toxic wastes into the ocean. (See Maritime Convention on Prevention of Pollution by waste and toxic matter dumping also named <b>London Convention </b>or L72)</div>
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The Fukushima power plant is <b>leaking unstoppably for the next decades</b> from many ends, with the <b>highest amount of radioactivity ever measured</b>. The sheer amount and speed in which it is dispersed into the Pacific ocean and starts pollution the environment and food chain (P.S: Bluefin tuna in Californian Waters are already spiking high amounts of radioactive isotopes) is leading towards the<b> biggest man-made environmental disaster</b> which could lead to millions of casulties.</div>
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- Dispatch Military forces to help with the cleanup, JDF & International Troops</div>
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- Start an immediate international fund for relief </div>
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- Declare the North, Central and South-Eastern Pacific a fishing-free zone, monitor closely the situation</div>
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- Stop eating fishing and shellfish products from the pacific ocean</div>
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http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japan-upgrades-fukushima-water-leak-to-level-3-serious-incident</div>
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http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2013/08/21/fukushima-m-a-tue</div>
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http://enenews.com/mainichi-27-1-quadrillion-becquerels-of-cesium-alone-flowed-into-sea-doesnt-include-first-week-of-crisis-still-30-times-what-tepco-claimed-warning-that-significant-pollution-to-remain</div>
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/08/130807-fukushima-radioactive-water-leak/</div>
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http://enenews.com/new-york-times-fears-of-environmental-calamity-tfrom-fukushima-disaster-japan-nuclear-expert-its-getting-worse-people-all-over-world-need-to-be-informed-first-case-in-history-where-so-muc</div>
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-a-nuclear-war-without-a-war-the-unspoken-crisis-of-worldwide-nuclear-radiation/28870</div>
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http://www.nbcnews.com/science/leaky-fukushima-nuclear-plant-raises-seafood-poisoning-concerns-6C10963427</div>
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http://rt.com/op-edge/chernobyl-fukushima-crisis-catastrophe-715/</div>
Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-89906164205572090512013-07-21T09:22:00.002+02:002013-07-21T09:23:27.673+02:00E.U subventions for Nuclear Industry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My Interview on the proposed EU subventions on Nuclear Energy by the EU Commission's Competitiveness Office, to subsidize Nuclear power the same way as sustainable and Green energy sources caused an uproar in Brussels and the anti-nuke community. (Pic: RTL.LU)<br />
Interview in Luxembourgian: To be seen here:<br />
http://tele.rtl.lu/waatleeft/replay/v/20130720/0/2996375/Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-62577910843943939102013-06-08T18:26:00.000+02:002013-06-13T22:03:00.747+02:00Cattenom or how I learned to live with the one of the most defectuous Nuclear Plants in the Western Hemisphere and stopped worrying? <br />
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Yes, you can say that my focus has always been towards Chernobyl, Mayak and to Fukushima, I researched there, attended seminars, held trainings, blew whistles... But all theses disasters made me blind to see the one just outside my window. As for several years now, I traveled to different hot spots, helped different anti-nuclear movements across Europe, but really failing sometimes to take a glance outside my bedroom window, from where I can always see the cooling clouds of Cattenom, Luxembourg's capital city is just 25km outside this mega nuclear power plant.<br />
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Cattenom is the 8th biggest Nuclear power plant in the world, one of the biggest in Europe. The flagship of the French nuclear parc. Also it has another very scary record. It is the commercial plant with the most known incidents in the last year. In 2012, 47 incidents were reported to the French Government Atomic Security Agency (ASN). In February 2013, 2 workers died in a horrific work accident while renovating the ceiling of the containment. The sheer number of incidents made the ASN perform a new survey and special visit to Cattenom from June 4th to June 6th to review the plant. Next to lack of basic radio-protective material such as A-suits and that defects are fixed or identified too late out of economic reasons, the ASN report concludes: <i><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">An in-depth</span> <span class="hps">analysis</span> <span class="hps">shows</span> <span class="hps">that major</span> <span class="hps">incidents</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">even if</span> <span class="hps">they</span> <span class="hps">are</span> <span class="hps">not relevant</span> <span class="hps">for the functioning</span> <span class="hps">of the system</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">go back</span> <span class="hps">to an insufficient</span> <span class="hps">accuracy</span> <span class="hps">in the preparation or</span> <span class="hps">an inadequate</span> <span class="hps">coordination.</span> <span class="hps">Such</span> <span class="hps">inaccuracies</span>, some with <span class="hps">technical</span> <span class="hps">incidents</span> <span class="hps">that were</span> <span class="hps">not predictable</span> <span class="hps">in 2012</span> <span class="hps">have</span> <span class="hps">led to</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">regular</span> <span class="hps">examinations</span> <span class="hps">had to</span> <span class="hps">be extended considerably.</span> <span class="hps atn">" </span></span></i><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps atn">The 2006 founded "independent" state body ASN is not known for uttering such clear messages and in the case of Cattenom it seems that they were very preoccupied about the general situation.<br /><br />Only published days later but on <b>June 5, traces of boron</b> were found in the cooling system of the reactor which left engineers baffled as they are still trying to figure out where these traces come from. Normally boron is not used during the reaction but is mostly used to break up a dangerous chain reaction. Are the exploiting EDF (Electricitiy of France) again covering up something?</span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps atn">One day (!) after their special survey on <b>7th of June</b>, around 13:30, <b>the transformer of unit 1 caught fire and exploded</b> quickly after that. The shock wave and bang was heard in a radius of approximately 15km. Scared local residents called the emergency services as black smoke came pouring out unit 1. It is believed that 50 vehicles and a 100 firefighters rushed to the scene, to deal with the dangerous and difficult task to extinct a transformer-fire. Shortly after the moment of the explosion, Unit-1 went into automatic shut down. As far as I was told from the State radio-protection, emergency-power units did not have to be started as the reactor was still being alimented by another transformer.</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps atn"> Nevertheless this shows that one of the main lifelines, the main transformer and generator were comprehended. Generally it is the failure of several of those systems or circumstances that lead to a disaster as f.i. construction design, human error in Chernobyl or poor use, human error and multiple electric failure in Fukushima. The fire was thought to be extinct by 16:30. Unit 1 will be down until further notice, the reactor is in shut down and is being cooled at the moment. </span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps atn">On June 11th, the Cattenom power station simply uttered a small press release to the National Homefront and Radioprotection to announce that yet another auxiliary transformer, the <b>emergency generator of Unit 3 was broken</b> and not operational until further notice. Experts could not yet determine the source of the failure. </span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps atn">This incident from friday has revealed once more, that even after extensive stress test, national safety reviews, and numerous warning, and whistle blowers, a power plant can grow out of control within a very short time. Cattenom, which was built as the most modern, safest and powerful of all French plants, is the best example of it. And to tell you the truth, you kind of expect it to happen. The safety record is Cattenom is so so poor that you just wait for the worst. A higher dose of tritium in the cooling river, soil contamination, technical failures, you are used to hear only those kind of news from Cattenom. And at one point you live with it. Still you protest, you work against it, but somewhat also accept the faith that there is a high chance that things will go very wrong at a moment. Nevertheless, when I saw the black smoke, at the time of Friday's explosion I was about 12clicks outside of Cattenom, I got scared, and suddenly all the people you ever talked to in the exclusion zone, all the moved people from contaminated areas, everything comes together and makes sense, and as sometimes rather reluctant and sane person you start to accept and live with it.</span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps atn">Sign a petition against Cattenom on Avaaz:<br /> http://www.avaaz.org/de/petition/AKW_Cattenom_abschalten_Kein_Fukushima_2_im_Herzen_Europas/?pv=12<br /><br />Further Reading: (Selection of Press Releases from the Station, press articles, etc):<br />http://www.cattenom-non-merci.de/</span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps atn">Video of the fire:<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5CEhwBRnIjg" width="640"></iframe><br /> </span></span>Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-23108682534948888672013-03-18T14:15:00.001+01:002013-03-18T14:15:02.203+01:00Fukushima Anniversary - ongoing catastrophe for 2 years<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The ecological disaster of Fukushima is far from being over. Two years after the unprecedented nuclear accident in Japan the </span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">woldwide impact</b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> of this catastrophe is being felt in the greater Pacific region:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"...a new study from Daniel J. Madigan of <b>Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station suggests</b> that even waters in the East Pacific aren’t safe from the radiation. Bluefin off the coast of Japan are still showing signs of contamination almost two years after the incident, and migration patterns suggest that fish floundering near the other side of the ocean will continue to show evidence of radiation. And because relatively young Bluefin may have spent the majority of their lives in radioactive ocean waters near Japan, even infant fish are testing positive for radiation all this time later..." (1)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">More and more fish off the coast as far as from Alaska to California, especially tuna show high radiation poisoning. The radiation typically settles in their muscular tissue, so the parts which are being processed for human consumption. </span><span style="line-height: 21px;">But also <b>in Japan</b>, where several months ago, a greenling fish was caught with 5100 times the normal radiation rate, a bottom-dwelling<b> fish</b> was caught just in front of the Dai'ichi Nuclear power point which measured a </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">record <b>740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium</b> in it's body. That's roughly 7400 times the normal level of radiation. (2) Many experts have argued that this is a proof that still a lot of radioactive material is leaking into the Pacific ocean. The decrepit state of the melt-down reactors which cannot be reached by the scientists and liquidators are probably the source of it. Senior Japanese Diplomat (3) Akio Matusmura believes that the meltdown in Unit 1,2,3 are an uncontrollable and real threat to Japan and the world. Another criticality event could lead to a huge explosion and catastrophic event of truly epic proportions. In addition the poor state of the cooling pools especially in unit 4 are also a source of a potential new catastrophe in Fukushima.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">It is indeed a tragic situation in Japan. The newly elected PM Shinzo Abe, has promised to relaunch Nuclear energy in Japan. For many W</span><span style="line-height: 21px;">esterners</span><span style="line-height: 21px;"> this seems absolutely unsound and hard to follow. However, the greatest energy consumption in Japan is in Tokyo and Yokohama Bay, far away from the contaminated regions of Fukushima. The debate in the capital and metropole is concerned only about their energy supply. Nothing more. Because the energy generated in Fukushima, was never for the people in the region, it was to satisfy the needs of Tokyo Bay making it grotesque that those affected by the disaster did not even get their energy from the Fukushima Dai'ichi Powerplant.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">http://rt.com/usa/tuna-fukushima-radiation-238/</span><br /><span style="line-height: 21px;">(2)</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/03/18/high-cesium-found-fish-fukushima-plant.html</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">http://rt.com/news/radiation-fish-fukushima-japan-385/</span><br />(3)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://akiomatsumura.com/2013/03/crisis-and-opportunity-politics-in-japan-and-the-united-nations-2.html</span>Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-85185228542765205032013-01-08T00:54:00.002+01:002013-01-08T11:34:09.260+01:00Fukushima's Crooked Cleanup<br />
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Japanese ASAHI Reporters have observed incognito over a week the work of Fukushima clean up squadrons and workers. They have observed highly questionable and ludicrous methods of radioactive waste dumping into the wild and into rivers as well as shoddy clean up techniques that now have led to a government investigation:<br />
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“It is extremely regrettable,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference on Jan. 7. [...] Some cleanup crews said they were told to dump potentially radioactive debris into rivers even during preparations to establish bases for full-scale decontamination efforts around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. [...]</div>
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Some of them said they dumped branches, leaves and water after cleaning local government offices and other places that would serve as bases for the full-scale decontamination [...] 1</div>
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[...] on Dec. 17, a worker in Naraha was observed using a pressurized sprayer to clean the veranda of a private home. Because no protective sheet was installed, water splashed the walls of neighboring structures.In some cases, radiation levels at homes have even increased after decontamination, leading some workers to suspect that radioactive materials were blown into the area by wind. [...] 2</div>
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A 43-year-old man who was part of that group took an Asahi Shimbun reporter to the site. A pile of leaves was found at the bottom of the slope by the river. The man came from Toyama Prefecture and ended the work on Dec. 26.</div>
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Seit mehreren Monaten nun versuchen die japanische Regierung und die staatlichen Medienhäuser die Katastrophe von Fukushima herunterzuspielen. Ähnlich wie bei der Desinformations- und Propagandakampagne der Sowjetunion nach dem Super-Gau in Tschernobyl verschleiern japanische Medien und Autoritäten das wahre Ausmass um die 4 havarierten Reaktoren und 6 beschädigten Kühlbecken in Fukushima.<br />
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Spätestens seit den letzten Wochen liegt dieses aus Lügen und Verschleierungen aufgebaute Kartenhaus jedoch in Trümmern: Allein in den letzten 14 Tagen überschlugen sich die Nachrichten aus Japan: Eine internationale Studie fand schwerwiegende Mutationen in mehreren Schmetterlingsarten. Die Schmetterlinge litten an typischen Mutationen die auf überhöhte Aussetzung mit Cäsium zurückzuführen sind. Nicht nur fand man überdimensionierte Flügel, deformierte Augen in einer sondern gleich mehreren Generationen der japanischen Falterart.</div>
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Auch die ersten Studien über den Impakt der Katastrophe auf das Leben im Ozean lassen nichts Gutes erahnen: 21 Meilen entfernt vom Kraftwerk wurden Fische mit Rekordwerten an Cäsium gefangen, 285 000 Bq pro Kilogramm! Als Gegenbeispiel, in Deutschland mass man nach der Tschernobylkatastrophe einen Wert von rund 4900Bq/kg in bayrischen Wildschweinen. Ähnlich alarmierende Werte wurden bei Makakaffen in der Präfektur Fukushima von der „Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University“ nachgewiesen.</div>
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Doch auch in Menschen kann die verheerende Strahlung bereits nachgemessen werden: Japanische Ärzte und Strahlenforscher vom “Medical Science Institute” an der Universität Tokyo, berichteten vor Kurzem, über ältere Menschen die sich nur mit Gemüse, Pilzen und Bambussprossen aus der Nähe des havarierten Atommeilers ernährten. Bei ihnen konnte mittlerweile eine Belastung von</div>
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Im havarierten Kraftwerk gilt noch immer der Ausnahmezustand: Laut Aussagen von mehreren Liquidatoren, den Mitarbeitern welche die Aufräumarbeiten im Kraftwerk unter unvorstellbaren Bedingungen erfüllen, werden immer mehr Jugendliche und Minderjährige von der Betreiber TEPCO eingesetzt. TEPCO hat mittlerweile auch zugegeben, dass nur die Schichtleiter mit teils Dosimetern( einem Gerät welche das Ausmass der täglichen radioaktiven Dosis berechnet) ausgestattet sind, und somit bei Tausenden Arbeitern nicht einmal gewusst ist, welchen Strahlungswerten sie ausgesetzt sind.</div>
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Die Entscheidung Japans bis 2040 ganz aus der Atomenergie auszusteigen kann man unter diesen Umständen schon fast begrüssen. Wäre da nicht der bittere Beigeschmack, dass trotz “Fukushima” zwei weitere neue Meiler in Japan in den nächsten Jahren ans Netz gehen werden. 2040 mag dann Japan “atomfrei” sein, aber das gefährliche nukleare Erbe der Fukushima Katastrophe wird bis dahin noch immer nicht behoben sein.</div>
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Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-91574836634284519312012-08-23T19:10:00.000+02:002012-10-03T12:02:39.084+02:00The Fairytale of Safe Nuclear Energy: Contaminated People, Highly radioactive fish and mutated butterflies in Fukushima<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Since the Fukushima catastrophe, several politicians, publishers, "scientists" and journalists tried to sell us the story that nothing happened in Fukushima. We knew better from the beginning but the studies and results from the last week regarding the effect of Fukushima radiation on wild life has shown us once more, how dangerous nuclear power really is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">First of all, a study was published on Muration in butterflies around Fukushima. A large number of butterflies showes deformities in larvae and also in adult animals with deformed wings, antennae and eyes in several generations:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #343434; line-height: 18px;">Radiation that leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant following last year's tsunami caused mutations in some butterflies — including dented eyes and stunted wings — though humans seem relatively unaffected, researchers say.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #343434; line-height: 18px;">The mutations are the first evidence that the radiation has caused genetic changes in living organisms. (via kval.com)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">It is likely that the first generation of butterflies suffered both physical damage from</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a href="http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/1263-radiation-exposure-contagious.html" style="color: #00467f; line-height: 20px;">radiation sickness</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">and genetic damage from the massive exposure to radioactive isotopes after the disaster, the researchers reported. This generation passed on their genetic mutations to their offspring, who then acquired their own genetic defects from eating radioactive leaves and from exposure to low levels of radiation remaining in the environment. The cumulative effect caused successive generations to develop more serious physical abnormalities. "Note that every generation was continuously exposed," said Otaki.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The findings are consistent with previous studies in Japan and at <a href="http://www.livescience.com/13858-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-25-years.html" style="color: #00467f;">Chernobyl</a>, Mousseau added. <b>"The ecological studies that we have conducted found that the entire butterfly community in Fukushima was depressed in radioactive areas, as were the birds, and that the patterns seen in Fukushima were similar to what has been observed in Chernobyl. If the plants and animals are mutating and dying, this should be cause for significant public concern." (via livescience.com)</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />The operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said Tuesday it had found<b> 25,800 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive caesium in greenling</b>, <b>258 times higher than the government safety standard</b>. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px;">Fishing in waters off the plant has been voluntarily restricted since the nuclear disaster at the plant, which went into meltdown after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px;">Less than a month after the start of the disaster, Tokyo Electric dumped </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px;">more than 11,000 tons of wastewater containing radioactive substances into the Pacific. (via times.co.za)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The radiation was caused by a meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima power plant after it was damaged by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. The disaster was so intense that contaminated fish were caught all the way across the Pacific Ocean, <a href="http://rt.com/news/tuna-fukushima-california-radioactive-472/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">on the California coast</a>. But it’s not only aquatic life that is suffering from side effects of the leaked radiation. According to researchers, the radiation has caused <a href="http://rt.com/news/fukushima-radiation-butterflies-mutate-672/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">mutations in some butterflies</a>, giving them dented eyes, malformed legs and antennae, and stunted wings. The results show the butterflies were deteriorating both physically and genetically. But the harmful risks don’t stop with butterflies. The radioactivity which seeped into the region’s air and water has left humans facing potentially life threatening health issues. Over a third of <a href="http://rt.com/news/fukushima-children-radiation-exposure-abnormalities-632/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Fukushima children are at risk of developing cancer</a>, according to the Sixth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey.The report shows that nearly 36 per cent of children in the Fukushima Prefecture have abnormal thyroid growths which pose a risk of becoming cancerous. (Via R.T)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2012/08/22/record-levels-of-radiation-found-in-fukushima-fish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://rt.com/news/fukushima-nuclear-radiation-fish-238/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://rt.com/news/fukushima-children-radiation-exposure-abnormalities-632/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://www.livescience.com/22353-mutant-butterflies-japan-fukushima-disaster.html</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/16/fukushima-radiation-butterflies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://www.livescience.com/22353-mutant-butterflies-japan-fukushima-disaster.html</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://www.kval.com/news/health/Japan-nuclear-leaks-sparked-butterfly-mutations-166941596.html</span></div>
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biologists tried to grasp the effect of the aftermath of the 1986
nuclear catastrophe on biological wildlife. One of the most
contaminated areas following the event is a strip of 10 to 15
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of Scots pine wood (lat. pinus silvestris) The most affected zone is
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suffered a complete loss of conifers with partial damage to hardwoods
(the so-called "Red forest"). Scholars estimate that the
level of absorbed doses of external gamma radiation exposure in
1986–1987 was 8000–10000, with the maximum extent of the dose was
500 mR/h and more. The total area of this zone is approximately 400
hectares. In this zone, the pine tree trunks completely died and pine
needles exhibited a brick color. The entire forest was virtually
"burned down"—having accumulated a significant amount of
radioactive emissions. Heavy radioactive contamination of the dead
trees led to their burial. On the territory of the "Red Forest",
immediate actions were implemented to restore the forests” (1)</i></span></span></span></div>
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of that zone heavy mutations were imminent: Pine trees looked more
like bushes then trees, gigantism and also deformity in the branches
were very common. The less affected zones don't show as many
deformities, nevertheless, the trees suck up radionucleides and
especially wildfires are an important risk for releasing more
radioactivity trough smoke clouds that could easily affect all of
Europe.</span></div>
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1992, a large wildfire burnt down undetected and released massive
amounts of radioactivity into the atmosphere. To this date, nothing
is known about the consequences of the great fire of 1992. Sergiy
Zibtsev, a professor from the Forestry Institute at the Kiev
University of Life Sciences is one of the few international experts
on the issue. Recently dispatched to Japan to ascertain the risks of
the Fukushima Daiich'i Nuclear Meltdowns to the wildlife in the
region. Zibtsev has worked for almost 20 years in the concerned
Chernobyl region, trying to figure out the risks and development of
forest life. He also coordinates with the 100 firefighters
permanently stationed in the area to spot wildfires: </span>
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in Chernobyl have one of the least enviable jobs in the world. They
spend all day up rusty Soviet watchtowers, which sway in the wind
like tin-box metronomes, and act as conductors to the huge lightning
storms which swing across the land most afternoons in summer, often
sparking fires. When they spot a wildfire, the firefighters
triangulate its location by radio. Teams jump aboard big, red, Soviet
fire trucks, and lumber along cracked, overgrown roads to the source
of the blaze...They believe they know when they are fighting a
radioactive fire - they experience a tingling, metallic sensation in
their skin - but they do not fully understand the serious dangers of
being exposed to superheated radioactive particles... Sergiy
(Zbitsev) says more big wildfires in Chernobyl like the one in 1992
would be catastrophic for Ukraine's image, and potentially
devastating for farmland right across Europe. (2)</i></span></span></div>
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a recent visit near the exclusion zone and the heavily contaminated
areas of Southern Belarus, I wanted to have a closer look on trees
and how they were affected by the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe. I had
read in several studies, especially in Nesterenko & Yablokov's
“Consequences of Chernobyl on Environment (N.Y Academy of Sciences
2008) that even in trees far away from the powerplant in Ukraine,
Belarus and Russia, the affect of radiation can be seen directly with
a different color of the year ring in the tree trunk, showing that
the tree's growth rate and biological circle were heavily affected bt
the incident. Incidentally, trees outside of the heavily contaminated
areas of Southern Belarus show the same characteristics as the trees
that were studied by Nesterenko and Yablokov: The year 1986 is in
most trees visible and from that period their growth and the color of
their stem changes dramatically. On the following pictures this can
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videoscope of the basement of the crippled reactor 1 at the Fukushima
Dai'chi Nuclear power plant showed disturbingly high levels of
radiation. Japanese engineers inserted a camera trough the
canalization system into the basement. Just above the radioactive
waters, the engineers measured an alarming <b>high level of 10300
milisieverts/hours</b>. In this environment, means a Japanese nuclear
power plant worker would reach his year limit within 15 to 20
seconds. 20 to 30 minutes would be enough to render a perfectly
healthy adult very sick. Symptoms of acute radiation sickness would
appear resulting in death by heart or multiple organ failure. Tepco
announced yesterday that the other accidented units 2 and 3 don't
show such a high level of radiation. Nevertheless over 1 Sievert
(1000milisievert/h) have been measured in outside these units. Tepco announced that the demolition and clean up of the crippled reactors might take up to 50 years. </div>
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<a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/06/27/tepco-detects-record-radiation-levels-at-fukushima/">http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/06/27/tepco-detects-record-radiation-levels-at-fukushima/</a></div>
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a long time, not much had been know about the <b>1957
Nuclear incident in</b> <b>Mayak</b> in the Ural Mountains
of central Russia. The incident which many scientists have ruled as
one of the worst in history continues to cause many problems in the
concerned region.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">(c) O. Connolly - Nadezha Kutepova during the 2011 Ceremony of the "Nuclear Free Future Award"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spoke with</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Nadezha Kutepova</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Russian environmentalist, sociologist and lawyer born in Ozersk one of the many cities in the Chelyabinsk region, most affected by the Mayak incident. As founder and director of the "Planeta Nadezhd" (engl. Planet of Hopes) NGO, Nadezha Kutepova has lead many court cases and supported over 100 victims and their families for recognition in the Chelyabinsk region, but also in front of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. She is the laureate of the 2011 "Nuclear Free Future Award". </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The
1957 incident was the first important accident in the Nuclear Age.
For nearly 30 years it was covered up by the Soviet Union? What
happened in Mayak and how could the USSR cover up this event for so
long?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">September
29, 1957 underground tank with high level of liquid radioactive waste
exploded in Ozersk (former name Chelyabinsk-65), where Mayak nuclear
plant is situated. 20 billions curie of radioactivity in atmosphere
and area 23 000 sq.km was contaminated. Officially, information
about accident of 1957 was opened only after Chernobyl accident, the
reason is the Soviet Government kept secret because nuclear
production was a “state secret”. I know that also US American
Government had known information about this accident exactly after
the accident. The US Government just began to transform military
nuclear program to nuclear energy and NPPs, for them was unprofitable
that anybody knows about consequences and will be protest against
«safe nuclear energy”. My father was victim of this accident, he
lived at Sverdlovsk and was mobilized to do the clean up job after
accident aged 18, he had terrible cancer as consequences of clean up
job and died from it when I was 13.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>You
yourself were born in the contaminated area in the Chelyabinsk
region. Can you tell us about your experience of growing up in that
region? </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">From
one side it was usual life of usual child in provincial soviet city.
I have never known anything about nuclear contamination until 1990
year. When information was opened for publicity. From another side I
was born and grow up in closed city – soldiers defended our city
with fence with border wires and when I was leaving it during summer
vacation – parents always reminded me do not tell anybody from each
city I am from for reason of state secret and threat of prison.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Still
today many people suffer from the consequences of the incident. What
are the problems of the people you support? How do you help
them? </b></span></span></span></div>
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human rights lawyer I regularly make legal consultations for people
of my region, I identify problems, find ways how to defend them and
defend them in different levels, including local or regional
authority, local or regional court and also European court of human
rights. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>How
are officials responding to the efforts of you and your organization?
Is there a problem of arbitrariness in the Justice system? </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ever
2 years ago, me and my NGO had terrible pressure from state and
intimidation. Now the situation is a little bit better, I am advisor
of regional ombudsman and our region has new and young Government.
Problems that occurred are for example if is it defense of
human and social rights, it is little bit easier than to defense
environmental rights or human right in closed city. But I also
have threats from officials for example for our "Techa river
case", where we prove contamination of Techa and try to obligate
"Rosatom" and Government to build sarcophagus and isolate
Techa river because regional Government want to receive huge taxes
from Mayak for import of nuclear spent fuel from foreign countries,
but our activity about Techa river for opinion of regional
Government does not allow for Mayak to take NSF and restricts region
of taxes of Mayak. They demand to stop any anti-nuclear activity. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
can’t to tell that there is problem of arbitrariness in the Justice
system, I can say about pressure of officials for Justice System. It
looks so – usually court takes law’s position of official party
not the side of applicants, it means that law and facts has no
meaning for court, only position of officials.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What
are the main challenges for the next decade in the Chelyabinsk area?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
can tell about main environmental problems in a summary:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1.
Mayak nuclear contamination</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2.
Karabash steel’s production contamination</span></span></div>
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Chelyabinsk steel’s production contamination l</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>According
to new studies, broken pipes and bad maintenance at the Mayak
facility have contaminated probably for many decades the grounds and
rivers like the "Tetcha"? Can the real amplitude of Mayak
actually be measured?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yes
it is true, Techa is most dirty nuclear river, I think now we can
name it "open storage of nuclear waste". I think also we
will never know about real amplitude of Mayak, we have only little
part opened information. Mayak and "Rosatom" resistances.
They hide everything what they can . As, I told above we began court
proceeding against Russian government and Rosatom to isolate Techa,
because still 3 villages with more than 3000 people live near Techa
and use water for every day needs. Court make it very slowly, try by
different ways to stop it, but we continue. For example we could
receive Judgment of former director of Mayak with dates of Prosecutor
that Mayak spilled nuclear waste even in 2004! Earlier "Rosatom"
lied that they finished the clean-up work in 1962. If we can do it
and will win the case, we can finally to isolate Techa, will move
people and create evacuation zone. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What
can I do, or interested people outside of Russia to help the victims
of Mayak? Where can we find information and how can we help?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
can help for victims personally or through me or our NGO. One German
volunteer created web site <a href="http://www.mayak-victims.info/">www.mayak-victims.info</a>,
where people can find person for whom they want to help. (the website
is still under construction) But 2 kids from this site already
received cures, clothes and little money. Also I recommend to
use <a href="http://www.antiatom.ru/">www.antiatom.ru</a> and <a href="http://www.bellona.no/">www.bellona.no</a> for
receiving more information about Mayak and consequences of it
activity. To get to know us, ARTE made a movie about our NGO
work: <a href="http://www.arte.tv/de/Die-Welt-verstehen/arte-reportage/ARTE-Reportage/3791320,CmC=3791326.html">http://www.arte.tv/de/Die-Welt-verstehen/arte-reportage/ARTE-Reportage/3791320,CmC=3791326.html</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Thank
you very much for your time.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b>Further information and reading:</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="182" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mifSiUvzh9A" width="300"></iframe></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.chernobylcongress.org/speakers/artikel/5730b1ae9f5c73c4f4924d6f1478ea94/-0782c08f06.html</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">http://www.nuclear-free.com/deu/KutepovaManzurova.htm</span></span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">http://www.wecf.eu/english/press/coverage/2011/Nadezhda-Arte.php</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">http://www.russland.ru/rupol0010/morenews.php?iditem=22920</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">http://www.nuclear-free.com/PDF/Dubrulle_Speech2011.pdf</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">http://www.wecf.eu/english/articles/2009/06/courtcase-planetofhopes.php</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">http://www.arte.tv/de/Die-Welt-verstehen/arte-reportage/ARTE-Reportage/3791320,CmC=3791326.html</span></div>
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</span></span>Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-5947112897074472622012-04-23T01:00:00.001+02:002012-04-25T20:13:19.512+02:00Health issues & radiation sickness in Japan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For many months now, the first reports, studies and peer reviews have been published on the issue of health effects of the Fukushima-Dai'ichi disaster. Especially children are the most affected of radiation sicknesses and diseases such as thyroid problems, acute cardiovascular diseases, cancers, lumps and irrefutable cell damage, because their immune systems are not fully developed. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A study conducted in the Fukushima prefecture on 3375 children showed:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">"Total number of children tested: 3765</span><br style="line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">No. of children found with lumps 5.1 millimeters and larger: 26 (0.7% of total)</span><br style="line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">No. of children found with lumps smaller than 5.1 millimeters: 1117 (29.7% of total)</span><span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><b>1143 children, or 30.4% of children tested, were found with lumps of varying sizes. </b></span><span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">26 children (0.7%) have been found with lumps with 5.1 millimeters or larger in diameter, and will go through further testing [at some time]. However, Shunichi Yamashita, the head of the commission and the vice president of Fukushima Medical University explains, "There is no malignant change due to the nuclear plant accident". Of 3739 children who will not need further testing (99.3% of children tested), </span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">1117 children (29.7%) have been found with lumps 5.0 millimeters or less in diameter</span><span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">. But the prefectural government has decided they are "benign". (1)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Already last year, in May 2011 Satoshi Tashiro, senior professor of the Hiroshima University had discovered in <b>550 out of 1100 children's thyroids high and health threatening levels of radiation</b>, up to 0,1 - 0,2 mSv/ h. (2) Regarding the fact that especially children are extremely vulnerable to radiation because their immune system is not yet fully developed and that they are irradiated and exposed to highly radioactive sources of radiation, and contaminated by local food, dust and water, we must unfortunately be ready to<b> predict a high number of children cancers and genetic defects over the next decades</b>, probably worse then Chernobyl. But also unborn life is severely affected by radiation: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Examiner.com resumed the risks and threats very well in an article from June 2011:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In the ultimate nuclear nightmare scenario now unfolding, Japanese local newspapers have attributed sickness in children to Fukushima's nuclear meltdowns, the radioactive levels now elevated throughout eastern Japan. <b>Children </b>over 32 miles from ground zero <b>are suffering fatigue, diarrhea, and nosebleeds, the three most common of eight radiation sickness signs, </b>the three in the earliest stage </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tokyo Shinbun newspaper reported that many Japanese<b> children have "inexplicable" symptoms</b>. Each symptom described are among the first experienced with radiation sickness. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Japan is dangerously contaminated by radioactivity over a far larger area than previously reported by TEPCO and the central government according to new reports from multiple sources," the Daily Kos reported. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The prefectural government of Iwate released new data that shows radioactive contamination of grass exceeds safety standards at a distance of 90 to 125 miles from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plants.<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Children become radiated when they drink milk and eat dairy products from cows feeding on radioactive grass</b>, even at low levels according to the world's foremost anti-nuclear campaigner, Dr. Helen Caldicott, and other independent scientists. Radioactive materials concentrate in milk" and many other food products. (5) </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pediatricians around Japan but mostly in a 200km radius around Fukushima report of more and more children attended by radiation sickness and describing the typical symptoms: </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;">" Tomoyuki Yamazaki, a Japanese doctor ... in Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan who provides medical counseling at the information center every month, said in an email to ENInews that an<b> increasing number of children he has seen “have nosebleeds that don’t stop, diarrhea, dark circles under their eyes, and incurable stomatitis [an inflammation of the mucous linings in the mouth]</b>. A growing number of children [at the centre] have pains in their chests.” [...] </span>(6)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fear and growing rumors of miscarriages have been denied by the government although first analysis and statistics point in a different direction. The University of Fukushima disinforms the public by telling them <b>that currently 28 pregnancies in Fukushima are resulting in a miscarriage out of 100</b> , but that would be a rather normal number. One third of the pregnancies ending in a miscarriage an this is supposed to be normal? The disinformation these days doesn't seem to know any limits. (7) Another less acadamical but interesting report came from the Morning-TV of AsahiTV. Apparently, mutations are also visible in botanic life: Reporters claimed that many mutations in flowers and plants have occurred and showed images of mutated dandelions. (8) The disinformation from the government takes unprecedented levels of absurdity. Sebastian Pflugbeil, a respected German Nuclear Expert and chairman of the Society for Radiation Protection, visited the Fukushima area and was shocked to find a beauty pageant in Fukushima for the prettiest girl who ate only food from Fukushima area. This pageant was supported and sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture. (9) The <b>typical eye-swelling</b> especially in small children has also occured in Fukushima and surrounding areas. Swollen red eyes, as observed in Chernobyl are a typical <b>symptom of thyroid disorder</b> and have been reported in Japan especially by parents whose children played in contaminated sand boxes or playgrounds. (10)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leukemia cases and fear of Leukemia in Japan is on the rise. A senior Japanese journalist, covering the Fukushima case since march 2011 developed <b>acute lymphocytic leukemia</b> and died after 3 weeks (3). In a recent survey a lot of Japanese people show they are preoccupied about becoming sick and scientist talk about a <b>massive psychotic disorder</b> caused by both the accident and the coverup by Japanese authorities:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="line-height: 18px;">Despite the fact that the Japanese government and TEPCO were caught red-handed underplaying the severity of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, a study has found that almost a quarter of Fukushima residents hospitalized in the aftermath of last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami were treated as having a “psychiatric disorder” because of their concerns over radiation. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The phenomenon of authorities underplaying the threat posed by radiation or even characterizing concerns over it as a mental illness has become a dominant theme since the catastrophe just over a year ago. This is despite the fact that Japanese authorities were caught over and over again lying to cover-up the true scale of the disaster.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">“Some <b>24.4 percent</b> of people who were<b> hospitalized in Fukushima with psychiatric disorders </b>in the wake of the outbreak of the crisis at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant had done so possibly because of fears of radiation exposure, according to the results of research conducted by psychiatrists at Fukushima Medical University,”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a href="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120326p2a00m0na011000c.html" style="color: #0066cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">reports the Mainichi Daily News</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">" (11)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">After 13 months, the whole impact of the catastrophe is yet far from being measurable. The fact that still 3 reactors are out of control and 6 spent fuel pools are beyond repair does however predict a rather pessimistic future. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">(1) </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">http://ex-skf.blogspot.de/2012/01/1117-children-over-30-of-3739-tested.html via Fukushima Minpo Newspaper </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17px;">via http://www.minpo.jp/view.php?pageId=4107&blockId=9927368&newsMode=article</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17px;">(2) http://internationalnucleareventscale7.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/radiation-found-in-up-to-50-of-childrens-thyroid-glands<br /><br />(3) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">http://enenews.com/journalist-dies-of-acute-lymphocytic-leukemia-was-living-inside-30-km-zone-to-support-fukushima</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">(4) </span>http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/12/mhlw-ignores-the-medical-statistics-of-fukushima-and-a-part-of-miyagi/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">via http://www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/informationView.do?bcd=1</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(5) http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/children-sickness-linked-to-fukushima-radiation</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(6) http://www.eurasiareview.com/18042012-japan-fukushima-woman-organizes-radiation-information-centers-at-church/</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(7) http://enenews.com/japan-times-28-of-every-100-fukushima-pregnancies-resulted-in-miscarriage-or-abortion-of-course-we-didnt-believe-the-rumor-but-we-just-wanted-to-confirm-that-it-was-groundless-says-survey-l</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(8) http://enenews.com/report-asahi-tv-show-airs-photos-of-mutated-plants-in-tokyo-same-program-to-feature-dire-situation-at-no-4-fuel-pool-asked-audience-to-send-in-more-examples-photo</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(9) http://japanfocus.org/events/view/142</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(10) http://enenews.com/eye-swelling-is-a-symptom-of-thyroid-disorder-i-often-hear-how-children-eyes-become-swollen-after-going-in-radiation-contaminated-sandpits-remember-the-kitty-video</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(11) http://www.infowars.com/fear-of-radiation-treated-as-psychiatric-disorder-in-fukushima/</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Further information:</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/e_O2j_f43P4" width="420"></iframe></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/world/asia/japan-studies-radiation-effects-on-children.html?_r=1</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/yamashita-banned-recording-findings-suggestive-of-thyroid-nodule/</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.facebook.com/notes/chernobyl-children-fukushima-children/chernobyl-deaths/180964705325501</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://tekknorg.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/children-radiation-maps-2/ </span><br />
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<br /></div>Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-59014086190571864852012-04-11T02:14:00.001+02:002012-04-11T22:49:22.282+02:00Serious incidents in France and South Korea leave many questions:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On April 5<sup>th</sup>, 2 fires
in reactor 2, in the French Nuclear Power Plant “Penly” provoked
a radioactive leak in the primary pumping system releasing 2300 litres
of radioactive cooling water per hour. In a first reaction, Bruno Chareyron,
senior researcher at the independent nuclear institute CRIRAAD
announced that the accident is to be taken very seriously. A serious
damage in the primary circuit on the pumping system that allows the
reactor to be cooled down is a very serious matter. He asks how is it
possible to have a malfunctioning pump with oil leaks, and what is
the cause of it? Poor maintenance or low quality material?
Furthermore the French Nuclear Safety Agency ASN has not yet
commentated on the health state of both firefighters and workers who
intervened at the NPP Penly. They can very well protect themselves
against radioactive contamination but not against the irradiation
from the source. In the case of Penly, regarding the fact that highly
radioactive cooling water containing many sorts of radioactive
isotopes escaped from the primary system, the irradiation of the
workers and firefighters must have heen important. Furthermore the
question of the consequences for the environment have not (yet) been
addressed by French authoriti<span style="color: black;">es:
</span><span style="color: black;">EDF,
who exploit the NPP Penly reassured that all of the leaking water was
caught in special buckets. The question remains how much more these
containers could have retained if the leak had not been stopped.
These waters will be treated and most probably thrown into the ocean.
Knowing that tritium cannot be processed, an important tritium amount
will thus be liberated into the Channel. (The nuclear power plant in
Penly has already a certificate issued by ASN to drop 72 000 000 000
000 bequerels per year into the Channel) Saying that the impact on
the environment is not a risk, is thus a very quick and false
conclusion by French authorities. In the next weeks and months it is
up to the authorities and also us to check if the tritium readings in
the Channel by have substantially risen or not. In another reaction
Greenpeace France calls for an immediate stop of all French Nuclear
reactors and an urgent petitions EDF and ASN to quickly check all the
pumping systems in the “French nuclear park”. The French blog “Le
Blog de Fukushima” has published an not really scientific nor
representative but yet interesting map of the fallout of Chernobyl
and Fukushima applied to Penly. Possible scenarios would imply the
evacuation of Bruges, Brussels, London, Eindhoven, Amsterdam,
Luxembourg, Paris, or important parts of France's Northern seaboard,
South East England or entire countries like Belgium or Luxembourg.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Penly,
was without any doubt a very close call. Another near accident
happened several weeks ago in the South Korean nuclear power plant in
Kori the country's oldest station. The incident itself had been
kept in the dark for several weeks before South Korean authorities
decided to publish it. On February 9</span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;">
2012, the reactor was shut down for inspection. After that, the whole
reactor system lost all power and diesel generators failed. The
plant was without power for 12 minutes. This is a very serious
incident. Electricity failures and problems with energy supply are
the most critical events that can happen at a station: No power
meaning that neither the reactor can be cooled nor can the chain
reaction be controlled. After 12 minutes the electricity in Kori was
restored and the workers could stabilize the reactor. One doesn't
want to imagine what could have happened in South Korea if the
workers hadn't had managed to reestablish the energy supply. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">What
do these incidents teach us? Especially the incident in Penly shows
us that the E.U stress tests did not improve the security of French
nuclear power stations. The disastrous state of some plants remain
the same. A serious incident seems in France likely and only a matter
of time. </span>
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<a href="http://fukushima.over-blog.fr/article-si-penly-103019984.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://fukushima.over-blog.fr/article-si-penly-103019984.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.asn.fr/index.php/S-informer/Actualites"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.asn.fr/index.php/S-informer/Actualites</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www3.nhk.or.jp/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www3.nhk.or.jp/</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://leblogpolitiquedebernardfrau.20minutes-blogs.fr/archive/2012/04/06/grave-evenement-a-la-centrale-de-penly.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://leblogpolitiquedebernardfrau.20minutes-blogs.fr/archive/2012/04/06/grave-evenement-a-la-centrale-de-penly.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.irsn.fr/FR/base_de_connaissances/Nucleaire_et_societe/penly3_debat-public/Documents/IRSN_Reponse-CPDP-Penly-3_Q82.pdf"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.irsn.fr/FR/base_de_connaissances/Nucleaire_et_societe/penly3_debat-public/Documents/IRSN_Reponse-CPDP-Penly-3_Q82.pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.criirad.org/actualites/dossier2012/penly/penly.html">http://www.criirad.org/actualites/dossier2012/penly/penly.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Images:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Getty Images 2012 (c)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- (c) Fukushima "Le Blog"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></div>Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-83988944423069411562012-03-27T18:24:00.003+02:002012-03-28T01:36:31.516+02:00The End of Japan as we know it ?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The "Atomic Age" is definitely over. So over. 1 year after the Fukushima
meltdowns and reactor catastrophes, Japan and important parts could be literally standing on the edge of a razor blade. Not only 4
crippled reactors are still posing an immense health threat, but also
the 6 spent fuel basins on the site of the Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, with spent uranium rods are heavily damaged
and are considered by international experts as a huge problem. A new
earthquake could very well damage the spent fuel pools and lead to
massive leaks of both radioactive materials and cooling water into
the ground water and Pacific, but furthermore an uncontrolled chain
reaction triggered by the used fuel could mean the end of Japan as we
know it today, and trigger a catastrophe of epic proportion</span>. <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This is not a
panicky wake up call, but a desperate description of the
situation in Fukushima as it presents itself today. What makes the
spent fuel pools in the case of Fukushima so dangerous:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">...the
spent fuel rod pools that sit right next door to the reactors. The
storage pools are packed with radioactive uranium, rise several
stories above ground and are always close to the reactor, thus
facilitating easy transfer of the fuel rods. Their name— especially
“spent” and “pool”— conveys calm dissipation. But spent
fuel rod pools are actually highly radioactive, very unstable,
extremely dangerous and, compared with reactors, not well supported,
contained or looked over. </span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
spent rods give off considerable amounts of “decay heat” and thus
must be submerged in constantly circulating water. Expose them to air
for a day or two, and they begin to combust, giving off large amounts
of radioactive cesium-137, a very toxic, long-lasting, aggressively
penetrating radioactive element with a half-life of thirty years.
When cesium-137 it enters the environment, it essentially acts like
potassium and is taken up by plants and animals that use
potassium....(The Nation, C. Parenti 15.03.2012)</span></i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The
spent fuel pools are situated in the reactor bulding on one of the
top floors. We know from the satellite fixes that most roofs of the 4
reactors have collapsed and smoke is still evaporating from the
spent-fuel level. This can only lead to the conclusion that the water
in the spent-fuel pools is evaporating or worse boiling. Once the cooling waters gone, the used fuel will just catch fire and thus create a chain
reaction, a heavy chain reaction in open air, like an open-air reactor, making it impossible to
work on any of the other crippled reactors and thus provoking chain
reactions in the other fuel tanks and reactors on the Dai-chi site. German State
television ZDF recently called this scenario "likely to happen". If that would be the case they had found a word to describe it "Armageddon". Japan would thus cease to exist as we know
it today. Chernobyl would be a scratch in comparison to a multiple open-air meltdown & chain reaction, and disturbingly, the Dai-ichi Fukushima Plant has enough material to match up this disaster:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">... the
spent fuel pools are of significant concern, Marvin Resnikoff, a
radioactive waste management consultant, said in a Wednesday press
briefing organized by the nonprofit organization Physicians for
Social Responsibility. Resnikoff noted that the pools at each reactor
are thought to have contained the following amounts of spent fuel,
according to </span></span><em><a href="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/"><span style="color: #19437c;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Mainichi
Daily News</span></span></span></span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">: </span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reactor
No. 1: 50 tons of nuclear fuel, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reactor
No. 2: 81 tons, Reactor No. 3: 88 tons, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reactor
No. 4: 135 tons, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reactor
No. 5: 142 tons</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reactor
No. 6: 151 tons</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Also,
a separate ground-level fuel pool contains 1,097 tons of fuel; and
some 70 tons of nuclear materials are kept on the grounds in dry
storage... (Scientific American, K. Harmon 17-03-2012)</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.21in;">What personally strikes me most are metaphysical and sheer </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">existentialist</span><span style="line-height: 0.21in;"> questions, that nuclear energy confronts us with: Not only have we to provide security and stability for the waste of the power plants for more than 200'000 years, that's over 6000 generations, the only human activity that forces us to think in such numbers, but Fukushima could very well be the first time that nuclear energy threatens the integrity of a whole country and region. It is time to end this. And we can, without further ado! Not tomorrow, but now. Japan has only 1 reactor left in operating mode, 53 are now shut down. China is reviewing their plans of massively building new reactors, even if they are far from perfect, the European stress tests triggered more protests all over the continent. A quick exit is possible in most countries. It is this generation's duty to end the "Atomic Age" or it will end us. This is not a cheesy and pathetic end to an article but a last wake up call, for an industry and political class that failed to learned the lessons from Mayak, Three Mile Island, Sellafield and Chernobyl.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.thenation.com/article/159234/fukushimas-spent-fuel-rods-pose-grave-danger</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nuclear-fuel-fukushima</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Big Hug and Thanks to my fellow good soul Véronique who proof-read my article so late at night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Dear readers,<br />I decided to post a vast link collection of the hottest news from last week around the Fukushima Dai-ichi incident with small annotations. <br />Thank you, Good reading, keep up the good fight,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>yours,<br /> Philippe Schockweiler</i></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kyodo News 19-3-2012:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Woman collapsing in No-Entry Zone aswell as workers - confirmed deaths.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.47news.jp/CN/201203/CN2012032001001682.html</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Manichi News, Kyodo 20-3-2012:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">March Tsunami & Earthquake damaged also other nuclear power plants. Tokai NPP leaked 1.5 tons of radioactive water into environment.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120320p2g00m0dm015000c.html</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Japan Times, 20-3-2012</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Iitate ground highly radioactive - up to 153'000 bq/kg.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120320a3.html</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bloomberg, 18-3-2012<br />Food (in)security in Japan: 1% of the controls in comparision with Belarus & Chernobyl</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">... Inadequate testing by the government of rice, milk and fish from the region has prompted consumers to leave them on supermarket shelves and instead select produce from other regions or from overseas. Checks conducted nationwide so far are only 1 percent of what Belarus checked in the past year, a quarter century after the Chernobyl disaster, according to Nobutaka Ishida, a researcher at Norinchukin Research Institute...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2012-03-19/fukushima-farmers-face-decades-of-tainted-crops-as-fears-linger.html</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bloomberg 18-3-2012</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Devastating Impact of Fukushima Disaster on Japanese Farmers: </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">... Almost 100,000 farmers lost about 58 billion yen ($694 million) by March 1, or 25 percent of production, according to JA, the country’s biggest agricultural group. Imports of farm products jumped 16 percent to 5.58 trillion yen in 2011, according to the agriculture ministry... </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2012-03-19/fukushima-farmers-face-decades-of-tainted-crops-as-fears-linger.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="line-height: 24px;">The Yomiuri Shibun, 18-3-2012</span><br /><span style="line-height: 24px;">Radioactive Plankton found 600km away from Fukushima</span></b></span><span style="line-height: 24px;">... </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">The research team collected animal plankton at 17 locations between 30 kilometers and 600 kilometers east of the plant in June last year, about three months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">Cesium-137 was detected in all of the collected plankton, which in a dry state was found to contain 0.3 to 56.4 becquerels per kilogram. The farther away the plankton was collected, the less radiation it contained, according to the team...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">h</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">ttp://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120317003393.htm</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;"><b>Fukushima Diary, 16-3-2012<br />Reactortype of Fukushima: Problems known since the 1980's</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">In the 1980's simulations showed catastrophic results in the GE-Mk1 reactor (the one used in Fukushima) during meltdowns & accidents.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/03/corium-may-have-been-penetrated-15-hours-after-meltdown/</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;"><b>Japanese Investigation Committee for the Accident in Fukushima, 15-3-2012</b>Tepco still waits with the final report - only preliminary conclusions published!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://icanps.go.jp/eng/interim-report.html</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tepco's plant statuts report, 16-3-2012</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Note the unusually high hydrogen concentration and temperatures in reactor 3. Aswell as the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_120316_02-e.pdf</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yomiuri Shibun, 16-3-2012<br />High Concentration of Caesium in Japanese wildlife! Rabbits contaminated with 560bq/kg above safe limit! </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">More and more studies show the devastating effect of the incident on Japanese wild- and naturelife.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.yomidr.yomiuri.co.jp/page.jsp?id=56043</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kyodo News, 15-3-2012</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Difficult task to remove spent fuel from reactor.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chaotic state of the reactor makes it (nearly) impossible to decommission the plant properly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/03/147327.html</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Dr. Helen Caldicott Interview, 15-3-2012<br />Nobel Prize Nominee claims: Very early and high number of lumps in thyroid with Fukushima children</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A phenomenon seldomly observed that a nuclear incident causes so many lumps and complications only one year after the catastrophe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://greenacreradio.blogspot.de/2012/03/march-15-2012-lessons-from-fukushima-dr.html</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ENENEWS, via NHK, 15-3-2012</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Radiation too high for workers to continue repairs in suppression chamber of Reactor 2 & 3</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://enenews.com/nhk-radiation-levels-too-high-for-humans-to-continue-at-reactors-no-2-and-3-workers-must-repair-damage-to-suppression-chambers-video</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Interview with Prof. Karl Grossmann, 14-3-2012:</b>"Fukushima's toll will be worse"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://majority.fm/2012/03/13/313-karl-grossman-fallout-from-fukushima/#</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Arnold "Arnie" Gunderson via Xinhua 14-3-2012:<br />"Fukushima as bad or worse then Chernobyl</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Chernobyl was a single reactor running at about 7 percent capacity when rupture ... </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">[Fukushima] had three reactors running at 100 percent capacity and seven other reactors with spent fuel pools that were crippled</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2012-03/12/content_14814975.htm</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><b>French Nuclear Experts: Risk of Explosion in Fukushima still imminent! 14-3-2012<br />via France 24:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">http://www.france24.com/en/20120306-one-year-later-fukushima-still-threat-radiation-explosion-tepco-residents-corium</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><b>The Economic Times: 1-3-2012<br />Subcontractor workers report of their treatment by Tepco. Tepco denies deaths at plant although they occur!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/fears-for-safety-at-fukushima-one-year-on/articleshow/12093884.cms</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><b>25km from Fukushima, Radiation sickness strikes an 18 year old teacher<br />via Al-Jazzera correspondant in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture</b></span></span></div>
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<b>Mysterious highly radioactice powder found all over Fukushima region:</b><br />
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<b>Further reading:</b><br />
http://enenews.com/massive-amount-of-black-substance-found-on-road-in-minamisoma-after-several-days-of-rain-and-snow-emitting-50-microsvhr-photoPhilippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-59554674070808539162012-03-13T01:30:00.001+01:002012-03-20T15:37:34.831+01:00Interview with Keith Baverstock<br />
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During the “Fukushima 1 Year”
Conference, organized in the European Parliament by the Green Group
(Greens/EFA) I had the chance to interview<b> Keith Baverstock</b>. “<b>Docent</b>
(<b>adjunct professor</b>) in the Department of Environmental Science at the
University of Eastern Finland, <b>Keith Baverstock studies the effect of
ionizing radiation</b> on the cells and has taken over the years a <b>special
interest in effects of low doses of radiation, the toxicity of
depleted uranium and the consequences of accidents such as Chernobyl
and now Fukushima.</b>”* </div>
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<b>Approximately 1 year after the
Fukushima catastrophe, how do you see the situation in Japan:</b></div>
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<b>Baverstock</b>: Well, I think the situation is pretty desperate. But I am limited in
what I can say and what that might involve in terms of health
effects. Because we simply do not have enough information with which
to do that. It's pretty clear that in the village of Iiate and around
there, there are people which have been exposed to months to levels
which are similar to levels which are present in the settlements
around the Chernobyl reactor, and where people stay only for 12 days
roughly, at the highest. Those people we haven't been able to study
because they've been dispersed. But I think there should be a study
of these inhabitants of Iiate, because this is potentially valuable
information. But the situation in Japan is quite unprecedented: There
are 3 cores that have melted down, actually melted trough almost
certainly and the secondary containment has been blown away. So there
has been no limit to the release and we saw this huge release of
Xenon-133, that's an indication that the fuel has melted and all the
volatiles have come of. It is perhaps surprising that not more cesium
has come out, certainly there must be still a lot retained in the
molten fuel but precisely what is the state of the molten fuel, is it
just lying on the reactor floor? Has it eaten into the concrete? Is
there a danger of eating all the way trough the concrete? That's
getting more remote as time goes by. And nobody can find this out,
because nobody can get close enough to see what's happening. So, it's
an extremely desperate situation, not at all like the situation that
national governments have tried to suggest that, well I mean that one
of the most ridiculous things is that the IAEA(International Atomic
Energy Agency) reporting several months after the initial meltdown,
that in fact these reactors are under cold shutdown. “Cold
shutdown” doesn't mean anything if the fuel has run out and is at
the bottom of the reactor.
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<b>After
“Chernobyl” it was difficult for scientists to refer to
comparable data. Some people tried to compare at the time “Chernobyl”
to the data which had been collected from the bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. Now we have a lot of data from “Chernobyl”, can we
use it to compare it to Fukushima?</b></div>
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<b>Baverstock</b>: Well I think we do have a lot of data which I think is useful to
compare to Fukushima, but even tough it's 26 years since the
“Chernobyl accident”, this long delay periods for diseases to
appear after exposure. So there's still a lot to learn from the
Chernobyl accident, and the European Commission has commissioned a
study back in 2008, to see what else could be learned from the
Chernobyl accident. And that study, which I was a part of in 2010,
with a main recommendation that a long-term lifespan study should be
setup, along the lines of the RERS-Study. And so far no action has
been taken. We are now in 2012. We've had the Fukushima accident and
there's undoubtedly a huge amount of information that would be
gained from further studies of the Chernobyl accident in terms of
setting up from existing cohorts, a lifespan study. The second thing
is at the time of Chernobyl, it may not have looked appropriate to
compare the effects of a low dose of radiation spread over a long
period of time with the Japanese bomb survivor data. But now, we have
enough data from Tetcha-River (<i>river contaminated by the “Mayak
Incident”</i>), from radiation worker studies, to show us that
there is in fact no difference. In fact it is even possible that
exposure at a low-dose rate is even more damaging than exposure to a
very short-lived flash of radiation. So it is quite legitimate to use
the precisely the values that you get from Japanese bomb survivors
and apply them to situations like Chernobyl or Fukushima.<br />
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<a href="http://www.kbaverstock.org/">http://www.kbaverstock.org/</a> (Keith's personal Webpage with lots of information on both Fukushima and Chernobyl, his publications and interesting data)</div>
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</ul>Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-14585065473157152292012-02-14T01:16:00.001+01:002012-02-14T01:16:22.756+01:00Increase of Death Rate in U.S due to Fukushima-Fallout ?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="182" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sMV4p6RS1c8" width="300"></iframe></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is there a connection between Fukushima Nuclear fallout and excess deaths of 14'000 in the U.S ? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Renowned nuclear expert Joe Mangano and Janette Sherman, toxicologist and contributing editor of the 2009 New York Academy of Sciences "Chernobyl, Consequences for People and Environment" says yes there is, and it's comparable to the excess rates of U.S deaths from Chernobyl</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> Furthermore Dr. Sherman told me that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>the deaths from Fukushima will be greater than from Chernobyl" and that "t</b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>he young will be adversely effected by the radiation - their immune and detoxification systems are not fully formed and operational, and based upon their small body weights, they receive a proportionally larger dose of radioisotopes than do adults</b>."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This could explain the excess death rates of young infants in the U.S in the weeks following the Fukushima incident. The 18 page document published by Mangano & Sherman closes on this discussion:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Fukushima meltdowns, and the introduction of radioactivity across the<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">globe, indicate that accurate measurements are needed on subsequent changes in<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">environmental radioactivity and in health status. In the United States, there have<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">been limitations in both measures. Radioactivity samples in precipitation, air,<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">water, and milk were sporadically reported by the Environmental Protection<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Agency. Many measurements failed to produce detectable levels, and on May 3,<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2011, the agency reverted to its policy of making only quarterly measurements.<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some elevated concentrations were found to be up to several hundred times the<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">norm soon after the arrival of the Fukushima fallout, but no meaningful temporal<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">trends and spatial patterns can be discerned from these data.<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Few aggregate data on health status are available until several years after a<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">death or specific diagnosis. Immediately after Fukushima, the only nationwide<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">health status data available in the United States were weekly deaths by age<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reported by 122 U.S. cities (about 25% to 35% of all U.S. deaths), as reported<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the 14 weeks after the<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fukushima fallout arrived in the United States, total deaths reported were<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.46 percent above the same period in 2010<span style="background-color: yellow;">; in the 14 weeks before Fukushima,<span class="s1"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the increase from the prior year was just 2.34 percent. The gap in changes for<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">infant deaths (+1.80% in the latter 14 weeks, –8.37% for the earlier 14 weeks)<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was even larger. Estimated “excess” deaths for the entire United States were<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">projected to be 13,983 total deaths and 822 infant deaths.</span><span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Patterns of deaths among persons of all ages strongly reflect patterns among<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the elderly, who account for over two-thirds of all deaths. For the older population,<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">explanations for excess deaths must be considered after exposure to higher<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">levels of radioactive fallout. If cancer in some patients becomes active again,<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it may mean they already have cells carrying all but one of the three to four<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">requisite mutations to express cancer. Exposure to radiation (or a toxic chemical)<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">can provide the one final mutation to reactivate a quiescent tumor (17). Also<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">vulnerable are those elderly with depressed immune status, made worse by<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">exposure to radiation.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The CDC weekly mortality data have limitations. They represent only a 25<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to 35 percent sample of all deaths, which may or may not accurately represent<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the entire nation. Deaths are reported voluntarily and thus are subject to variations<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from city to city and for unusual circumstances in a week or period (e.g., totals<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">during the Christmas holiday season appear to be much lower). Weekly totals<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">are sometimes reported as unavailable and so cannot be used in any analysis.<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The deaths reported are by city of occurrence, whereas all final statistics are<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by residence at time of death. Deaths are categorized when the death certifi-<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cate is filed, not necessarily the date of death. Finally, the CDC weekly reports<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">provide raw numbers of deaths, not the more useful mortality rates, as popula-<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tions or numbers of births are not given.<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nonetheless, 25 to 35 percent of the United States is not a small sample,<span class="s1"> </span></span></span></div>
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representing all large cities and many smaller ones in all regions of the nation.<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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When extended periods are used, the numbers become larger and more<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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meaningful, because any variations increasing or decreasing death counts are<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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more likely to balance each other out. <span style="background-color: yellow;">The total of 155,015 U.S. deaths in the<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">14-week period after Fukushima, 2,722 of which are infant deaths, represents a<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">large database that is meaningful in a preliminary analysis of potential Fukushima<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">effects. Not to use them would mean a two- or three-year absence of any health<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">status data, until final figures are made public.<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The statistically significant difference in increased number of reported deaths<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">(total and infant) for the 14-week period after Fukushima has an added dimen-<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">sion because of similar findings for the four months immediately after the<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Chernobyl meltdown in 1986, using a 10 percent sample of U.S. deaths. The<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">post-Chernobyl increases, based on preliminary death data, were roughly com-<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">parable to the increases calculated from final death data (see Appendix Table 2).<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The preliminary versus final 1985–1986 change for the period May–August in<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">total deaths was within 3.7 percentage points (+6.0% vs. +2.3%), and the count<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">of infant deaths was within 3.0 percentage points (+3.1% vs. +0.1%). Thus, it is<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">unlikely that, for Fukushima, final death counts would show results markedly<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">different from the finding that more Americans, especially infants, died than<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">expected in the 14-week period following arrival of the Fukushima fallout.<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The 14-week excess death projections after mid-March 2011 (13,983 total,<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">822 infant) are relatively similar to actual excesses in May–August 1986 (16,573<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">total, 306 infant).<span class="s1"> </span></span></div>
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<b>Recent assessments have suggested that the amount of radioactivity released<span class="s1"> </span></b></div>
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<b>from Fukushima equals or exceeds that released from Chernobyl. Given the<span class="s1"> </span></b></div>
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<b>continuing emission of radioisotopes from the melted reactors, the high density<span class="s1"> </span></b></div>
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<b>of population around the plant, and the close proximity to food sources, we can<span class="s1"> </span></b></div>
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<b>expect that morbidity and mortality will be high in Japan. The relative homo-<span class="s1"> </span></b></div>
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<b>geneity of the Japanese population will allow for comparison of health conse-<span class="s1"> </span></b></div>
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<b>quences for people living in areas with lesser and greater levels of contamination,<span class="s1"> </span></b></div>
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<b>as has been done in areas affected by Chernobyl.</b></div>
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Adverse health effects may also be expected in the United States, even though<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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exposures have been far below those in Japan. Low-dose radiation exposure,<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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previously assumed to be harmless, has been linked with elevated disease rates<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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in children born to women who underwent pelvic X-rays while pregnant (18),<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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Americans exposed to atomic bomb fallout (19), nuclear plant workers (20),<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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and, for leukemia, children exposed to very low doses after Chernobyl (21).<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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In addition to physical diseases is loss of cognitive ability in adolescents fol-<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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lowing low-dose ionizing radiation in utero (22).<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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The human fetus and infant are especially radiosensitive, given their rapid<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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cell growth and cell division, as well as their small size that results in a propor-<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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tionately larger dose. These exposures include X-ray, alpha, beta, and gamma<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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radiation. Depending on the time of in utero radiation exposure, the result can be<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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expressed as spontaneous abortion, premature birth, low birth weight, stillbirth,<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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infant death, congenital malformations, and brain damage.<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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While this report concentrates on effects to humans, all life is sensitive to<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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nuclear radiation exposure, including plants, fungi, insects spiders, birds, fish,<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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and other animals (23). The best-studied group near Chernobyl (birds) shows<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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a 50 percent decrease in species richness and a 66 percent drop in abundance in<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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the most contaminated areas, compared with normal background in the same<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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neighborhood (24).<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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More importantly, the findings reported here, plus the disease patterns that<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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developed after Chernobyl, indicate that public health personnel can anticipate<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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and plan to put in place diagnostic and treatment procedures. Given the con-<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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tinued high levels of radioactive iodine, it is predicted that the incidence of<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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thyroid disease, including thyroid insufficiency in newborns and thyroid cancer<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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in children and adults, will increase (4, 25).<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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The health effects of exposure to radioactivity from the Fukushima meltdowns,<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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both in Japan and around the world, will take a long time to fully assess. The<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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paucity of data from the U.S. EPA is unfortunate and will hamper future studies.<span class="s1"> </span></div>
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* Email correspondance with Dr. Janette Sherman from February, 8th 2012.Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-66350778495936111322012-02-06T13:45:00.001+01:002012-02-14T00:38:19.835+01:00Interview avec Stéphane L' Homme (Francais & English)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aujourd'hui en interview, <b>Stéphane L'Homme</b>: De 2002 à 2010 il fût le porte-parole du "Réseau Sortir du Nucléaire. Avec Stéphane, qui préside également "l' Observatoire du Nucléaire", nous avons parlé de Fukushima, les "stress tests" et Cattenom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spoke with <b>Stéphane L'Homme</b>, longtime the figurehead of French coordinated anti-nuclear action. Stéphane told us about Fukushima, the European Stresstests and Cattenom. He presides over the "Observatoire du Nucléaire, France"</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Presque un an après l' accident de Fukushima, la situation au Japon reste très inquiétante. Comment evaluez-vous la situation au Japon?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #454545;">Comme en Ukraine et en Biélorussie, les pays les plus contaminés par la catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl (26 avril 1986), le Japon n'est qu'au début d'un drame dont les conséquences vont s'aggraver au fil des années. Des millions de gens sont touchés par la radioactivité et la santé de la population va se dégrader pendant des décennies. D'ores et déjà, à peine un an après le début de la catastrophe, certaines études montrent que "30% des enfants de Fukushima présenteraient des lésions thyroïdiennes notables" (cf </span></span><a class="yiv133709809moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/zEnZUF" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #234786; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/zEnZUF</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> )</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">D'autre part, les coeurs des réacteurs accidentés sont toujours en fusion, de la radioactivité est continuellement rejetées dans l'environnement, et une aggravation du drame est hélas encore possible... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #454545;"><br /></span><b>En France, plusieurs stations nucléaires ont été bâti dans des zones de séisme? Quel est le risque réel de ces stations?</b></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b><span style="color: #454545;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Le risque sismiques en France est moindre qu'au Japon... mais les centrales françaises sont moins résistantes : elles ont été construites par rapport à leur risque sismiques théorique. Ce qui fait que, finalement, le risque d'accident nucléaire en France suite à un séisme est aussi important qu'au Japon ! Il "suffit" que l'épicentre d'un séisme soit très près d'une centrale française pour que la situation soit grave, voire même comparable à Fukushima. Sans oublier les innombrables autres causes possibles : erreurs de conception, de maintenance, d'exploitation, etc</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Que pensez-vous des "stress-tests" en Europe après Fukushima? Dans la plupart des cas, on y propose seulement des investissements gigantesques?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">Ces "tests" ont fait l'objet de marchandages nauséabonds dans le but de protéger la continuation de l'industrie nucléaire. Par exemple, l'autorité de sûreté française a obtenu que le risque de crash d'avion ne soit pas pris en compte : en effet, aucune centrale française ne résisterait !</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">Pour autant, un certain nombre de mesures "post-Fukushima" ont été annoncées, comme la mise en place pour chaque réacteur d'un moteur de secours bunkérisé et situé en hauteur. Lorsque ce sera fait, dans de longues années, cela n'assurera pas pour autant la sûreté (le risque zéro n'existe pas !), mais cette affaire démontre l'incompétence des gens qui exploitent le nucléaire. Nous avons donc eu beaucoup de chance jusqu'à présent...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>En tant que Luxembourgeois en regarde toujours avec inquiétude sur Cattenom et Fessenheim..?</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ces deux centrales sont tout aussi dangereuses que les autres, avec quelques particularités : Fessenheim est la plus vieille, Cattenom une des plus puissantes... Il y a donc que quoi être inquiet mais il faut comprendre qu'une catastrophe nucléaire, même si elle a lieu au Sud de la France, contaminerait le Luxembourg... et toute l'Europe !</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Récemment dans le "Journal International du Cancer", une nouvelle étude a démontré le lien entre les leucémies infantiles aux environs des centrales nucléaires. Le nucléaire a-t-il alors pas besoin d'un accident pour poser des risques de santé?</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Effectivement, même en fonctionnement "normal" (c'est à dire hors accident ou incident), une centrale nucléaire rejette de la radioactivité dans l'aire et dans l'eau. Ces rejets,même faibles,posent de vrais problèmes de santé publique, comme montré par une récente étude en France, ou par une grande étude universitaire menée en Allemagne par l'Université de Mayence.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">D'autre part, même en fonctionnement "normal", une centrale nucléaire produit des déchets radioactifs qui vont rester dangereux pendant des millénaires. C'est injustifiable. </span></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fukushima a fait revivre les mouvements anti-nucléaires à travers le monde. En France pour la première fois, le nucléaire est aussi un sujet d'élection dans les "Présidentielles"? Donc la question s'avère : En France, à quand la sortie du nucléaire?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">La question du nucléaire est effectivement discutée, enfin, mais l'arrêt des centrales ne semble hélas pas probable : le pouvoir pronucléaire est au sommet de l'Etat, à la tête des principaux partis, à la direction des principaux médias, etc. Il semble que seul un Fukushima français contraindra ces gens à reconnaître... que cela peut se produire. Quant à la population, elle est ballotée entre la réalité du drame de Fukushima et la propagande pronucléaire officielle, et elle se préoccupe plutôt de ses problèmes immédiats comme la chômage, la précarité...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">En résumé, il y a hélas de quoi être très pessimiste...</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />ENGLISH:<br /><br />Nearly one year after the Fukushima incident, the situation in Japan is still very severe. How do you evaluate the situation?</b></span><br />
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color: #333333;">Chernobyl nuclear disaster</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps atn" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">(</span><span class="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">April 26, 1986</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, Japan</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">is only</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">the beginning</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">of a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">tragedy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">whose consequences</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">will worsen</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">over the years</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Millions of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">people are affected by</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">radioactivity and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">population health</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">will deteriorate</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">for decades</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Already</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">just a year</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">after the start</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">of the disaster</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">some studies show that</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps atn" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">30</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">% of children in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Fukushima</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">would present</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">significant</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">thyroid lesions</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps atn" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">(</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">cf</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">http://bit.ly/zEnZUF</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">). </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Furthermore</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; 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color: #333333;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">worsening</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">of the drama is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">unfortunately</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">still possible</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">...</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />In France, many nuclear stations are built in seismic areas. What is the real risque of these power plants in an eventual case of seismic activity?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span title="mais les centrales françaises sont moins résistantes : elles ont été construites par rapport à leur risque sismiques théorique."><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span title="mais les centrales françaises sont moins résistantes : elles ont été construites par rapport à leur risque sismiques théorique."><span style="color: #333333;">The seismic risk is lower in France, but the French plants are less resistant: they were built from their theoretical seismic risk. </span></span><span style="color: #333333;" title="Ce qui fait que, finalement, le risque d'accident nucléaire en France suite à un séisme est aussi important qu'au Japon !">So that, finally, the risk of a nuclear accident in France following an earthquake is as important as in Japan! </span><span style="color: #333333;" title="Il "suffit" que l'épicentre d'un séisme soit très près d'une centrale française pour que la situation soit grave, voire même comparable à Fukushima.">If the epicentrer of an earthquake is very close to a French central, this can result in a serious situation. even comparable to Fukushima. </span><span style="color: #333333;" title="Sans oublier les innombrables autres causes possibles : erreurs de conception, de maintenance, d'exploitation, etc">Not to mention the countless other possible causes: design errors, maintenance, operation, etc. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" title="Ces "tests" ont fait l'objet de marchandages nauséabonds dans le but de protéger la continuation de l'industrie nucléaire.">These "tests" have downplayed risks in a nauseating way, in order to protect the continuation of the nuclear industry. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" title="Par exemple, l'autorité de sûreté française a obtenu que le risque de crash d'avion ne soit pas pris en compte : en effet, aucune centrale française ne résisterait !">For example, the French safety authority has obtained the risk of plane crashes is not taken into account: indeed, no central French would not resist! However, a number of measures "Post Fukushima" were announced, as for instance the introduction for every reactor of a "bunkered" emergency engine and one place higher above.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" title="Pour autant, un certain nombre de mesures "post-Fukushima" ont été annoncées, comme la mise en place pour chaque réacteur d'un moteur de secours bunkérisé et situé en hauteur."> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" title="Lorsque ce sera fait, dans de longues années, cela n'assurera pas pour autant la sûreté (le risque zéro n'existe pas !), mais cette affaire démontre l'incompétence des gens qui exploitent le nucléaire.">Once that is done, in many years, this will not necessarily ensure safety (zero risk does not exist!), But this case demonstrates the incompetence of the people who operate nuclear power. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" title="Nous avons donc eu beaucoup de chance jusqu'à présent...">So we were very lucky so far.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />As a Luxembourger, we always look with mixed feelings toward Cattenom and Fessenheim, what can you tell us about these NPPs*? (nuclear power plants) </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">Both plants</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">are just as dangerous</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">as the others,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">with some peculiarities</span><span style="color: #333333;">: </span><span style="color: #333333;"></span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">Fessenheim</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">is the oldest</span><span style="color: #333333;">,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">Cattenom</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">one of the strongest</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">...</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">There is</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">therefore </span><span style="color: #333333;"></span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">something to be</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">worried</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">but we must understand</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">that a</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">nuclear catastrophe</span><span style="color: #333333;">, even</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">if it takes place</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">in the South</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">of France</span><span style="color: #333333;">, would contaminate</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">Luxembourg</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">and</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">throughout Europe</span><span style="color: #333333;">!</span><b><br /><br />Recently in the "International Cancer Journal", a new study revealed that there is a link between child leukemia rates being higher around NPPs. Nuclear Power is thus not only harmful during an accident but also a serious health risk even if there's no accident?</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">Indeed</span><span style="color: #333333;">,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">even in</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">"normal" functioning</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps atn" style="color: #333333;">(</span><span class="" style="color: #333333;">ie</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">excluding</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">accident or incident)</span><span class="" style="color: #333333;">, a nuclear station</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">rejects</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">radioactivity in the</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">area</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">and</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">in water</span><span style="color: #333333;">.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">These releases</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">even </span><span style="color: #333333;"></span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">low</span><span style="color: #333333;">,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">pose real</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">public health problems</span><span style="color: #333333;">,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">as shown</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">by a recent study</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">in France</span><span style="color: #333333;">, and a</span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;"> large</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">university study</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">conducted in Germany</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">by the University</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">of Mainz</span><span style="color: #333333;">. </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">Moreover</span><span style="color: #333333;">,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">even in</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">"normal" functioning</span><span style="color: #333333;">,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">a nuclear power plant</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">produces radioactive waste</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">that will</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">remain dangerous for</span><span style="color: #333333;"> thousands of years</span><span style="color: #333333;">.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">It is</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">unjustifiable</span><span style="color: #333333;">.</span><b><br /><br />Fukushima has reanimated many anti-nuclear movements around the world. Even in France, the nuclear issue seems to be adressed for the first time in a French Election campaign. So the question remains, when will we see a nuclear-free France?</b></span><br />
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<span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nuclear issue</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">actually</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">discussed</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">finally</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stopping</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> nuclear </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">power</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">seems </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unfortunately</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unlikely</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The biggest </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pro-nuclear</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> lobby</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is at the top</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the state</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at the head</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the main parties</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the direction</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the major</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">media.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems that only</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">French </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fukushima</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">would change</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">these</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">people to recognize</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this can happen</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for the population</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, they are</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">torn between</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the reality</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the drama of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fukushima</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pronuclear</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">official</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">propaganda</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and is concerned</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rather</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">its</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">immediate problems </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">such as</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unemployment, insecurity</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">In summary</span><span style="color: #333333;">,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">there is</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">unfortunately</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">very</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">much to be</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">pessimistic</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="hps" style="color: #333333;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Savoir plus sur Stéphane / More on Stéphane
Wikipedia: </u>http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stéphane_Lhomme
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blog personel / Personal Blog: </span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Observatoire du Nucléaire:
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Lien vers "Insecurité Nucléaire"</u>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Le livre de Stéphane, qui donne un bon résumé sur les enjeux du nucléaire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(c) blogger.com/stephane-lhomme<br /><br />N.B <br />Stéphane nous a transmis ces réponses par Courriel. Rien n'a été changé.<br />Stéphane sent his answers by email. No changes were performed to the interview.</span>Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-70000848156466378692012-01-22T23:58:00.001+01:002012-02-03T01:15:31.911+01:00Fukushima: Bad news in 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So far only bad news in 2012 around the crippled reactors of Fukushima. (1) Japanese scientists are still baffled about the whereabouts of the nuclear melted core material. The search for the highly radioactive core material is indeed a tricky one. In Chernobyl, the so called "elephant's foot" the congealed and melted portion of reactor material and fuel rods was only discovered months after the reactor catastrophe(2). Experts in Japan are now trying to find the location of the meltdowns by using x-ray technology. However high doses of radiation continue to be measured at the site of the reactor. During an endoscopic video mission when workers inserted a camera into the reactor core, the Olympus camera had tremendous problems to keep the images clear: Radiation was even visible on the film(3), a phenomenon which was also observed in some film reels shot in Chernobyl. The camera used for the "reactor endoscopic" was built to withstand radiation up to 1000Sv. Steam in the containment vessel of the reactor and high radiation levels limited the clarity of the images, but they raise the possibility that melted fuel at the bottom of the vessel may not be adequately covered by water, according to nuclear experts. TEPCO officials had calculated that the water level in the No. 2 reactor was about 4.5 meters, but the endoscope was lowered for inspection work within the reactor about 4 meters from the vessel bottom, and the water level could not be confirmed. TEPCO officials said it appeared likely that the water level was less than 4 meters from the bottom. TEPCO had stated that it believed some of the nuclear fuel in the reactor had melted and fallen to the bottom of the containment vessel, but the endoscope did not capture images of it.
A thermometer was attached to the endoscope and recorded a gas temperature near the lower half of the containment vessel of 44.7 degrees.(4)
In other news it was the announcing of the Japanese Government to nationalize TEPCO for at least 10 years. While this will definitely insure rapid payments and repairs for the victims of the nuclear disaster, the taxpayers of Japan will be likely the ones to pay in the end for the cleanup of the catastrophe.(5)
The European "Stress Tests" overshadowed once again the situation in Japan. As TEPCO and the Japanese government and thousands of workers struggle to get the situation under control, little people outside of Japan do care about the growing insecurity and problems in the region.
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The endoscopic camera inside of Fukushima-Daiichi Unit II<br />
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Pipes and emergency pipes laid during the first month of the evacuation at the power plant continue to burst under the freezing temperatures. Asahi News reports that:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">More than 8 tonnes of water have leaked from Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant after a frozen pipe burst inside a reactor buiding [sic] [...] </span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Kyodo, quoting [Tepco], said the water had leaked from the No.4 reactor when a pipe “dropped off” [...] </span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">“The total amount of leakage from the reactor was initially estimated to be 6 litres, but the utility revised the figure later Wednesday, adding that the leakage appears to have started at around 5 p.m. (0800 GMT) Monday,” Kyodo said. </span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; text-align: left;"><i>“The utility plans to check whether there are similar cases in the other crippled reactors,” it added. </i>(6) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; text-align: left;">Since many of the sources of the bursting pipes are from Tepco, and in regard of their terrible information policy, we might in mind that the reports are falsified and that the real situation is actually worse.</span></span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: arial, sans-serif, verdana, tahoma; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; text-align: left;"><br /><b style="font-size: 16px;"><u>Heart failures, and Growing heart problems in Fukushima area:</u></b><br />More and more news of children and new-born babies who suffer from complex cardiologic complications are reported from Japan. (7) Prof. Busby, analyzed the data comparing them to Dr. Bandazhevskiy's studies of cardiovascular complications of the "Chernobyl children"(8). Unfortunately only few scientists have investigated this phenomenon. This leads to incomplete and unsound statistics and in the end, much more people are affected by health problems caused by radiation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; text-align: left;">Prof. Busby explains his findings:</span></div>
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(1) http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120120f1.html<br />
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_%28nuclear_reactor%29#Chernobyl_accident
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(3) http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/result-of-endoscope-operation-on-1192012/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29
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(4) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201201200044
(5) http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL3E8CK3MG20120121?sp=true
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(5) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201201300042<br />
(6) http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/major-new-leak-at-japans-nuclear-plant-kyodo<br />
(7) http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120123p2a00m0na014000c.html<br />
(8) http://www.bsrrw.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/caesiumheart-Fuku-6-m.pdfPhilippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-48420607871606290612011-12-13T17:24:00.000+01:002012-01-30T01:24:20.209+01:00News from Fukushima & ChernobylNew scientific reports from Fukushima talk about at least 1 nuclear explosion in Unit III at the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
<br /><b>http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zakzak.co.jp%2Fzakspa%2Fnews%2F20111213%2Fzsp1112130929001-n1.htm&lp=ja_en&btnTrUrl=Translate</b> <br />New evidence shows that the North American Hemisphere received important parts of the Fukushima fallout.
<b>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/opinion/magazine-global-agenda-enough-is-enough.html
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Expedition from South Carolina University to Chernobyl shows a high rate of mutations:
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On Saturday 12th, TEPCO granted for the first time access to three dozen Japanese and international journalists, since the disaster in Fukushima-Daiichi NPP. TEPCO's publicity stunt to reassure the international press and public opinion backfires as it leaves more questions then answers. Journalists from Guardian, N.Y Times and the Telegraph report high levels of radiation as they approach the site op the Fukushima-Daiichi 1 Plant and report of skyrocketing radiation levels and chaos.
<br /><i>"Martin Fackler, the New York Times' Tokyo bureau chief, said the site was strewn with piles of rubble virtually untouched since the tsunami struck.
He said: "There's debris all around where the reactors are – twisted metal, crumpled trucks, large water tanks that have been dented and bent.
"You can see that this stuff has been strewn around and it has not been picked up and it's been there for eight months.
"So I think that more than anything is a testament to how difficult a time they've had in trying to get those reactors under control."
Radiation levels were still "very high", he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme."
The reporters, mostly from the Japanese media, were accompanied by the environment minister, Goshi Hosono, who is in charge of the clean-up operation. They were not allowed near the reactor buildings.
"I think it's remarkable that we've come this far," Hosono said. "The situation at the beginning was extremely severe. At least we can say we have overcome the worst."
Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), which runs the plant, has succeeded in bringing down the temperatures at the three damaged reactors from levels considered dangerous.
"From the data at the plant that I have seen, there is no doubt that the reactors have been stabilised," Masao Yoshida, the chief of Fukushima Daiichi plant, told the reporters.
But while it was now possible for workers to enter the reactor buildings, Yoshida said conditions for those working there remained dangerous.
Tepco hopes to complete a "cold shutdown" – when temperatures are stable below boiling point – of the damaged reactors by the end of the year.
But Hosono warned it could take more than 30 years to completely decommission the plant.
Hiroaki Koide, a nuclear physicist at Kyoto University, said he doubted the decommissioning process will go as smoothly as the government hopes.
He said pools for spent fuel remain highly volatile, and cleaning up the three reactor cores that melted down due to a failure of the cooling systems will be a huge challenge.
"Nobody knows where exactly the fuel is, or in what condition," he said. "The reactors will have to be entombed in a sarcophagus, with metal plates inserted underneath to keep it watertight. But within 25 to 30 years, when the cement starts decaying, that will have to be entombed in another layer of cement. It's just like Russian Matryoshka dolls, one inside the other." (via guardian.co.uk)<br /></i>
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The devastation and power of the explosions of reactor 3 are now revealed as Japanese and International journalists shoot images of it during the 1-hour trip inside the Fukushima complex: The next pictures show Reactor 3 as it is today: crippled and leaking massive amounts of radioactivity.
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Fackler continues:
"Finally, we got our first proper look at the damaged reactor buildings. No 1 was covered by a new superstructure, No 2 was intact. No 2 was in worst shape: it was a skeletal frame, largely collapsed into a pile of rubble.
I spotted three cranes clearing up rubble at No 3, in preparation for also capping off that building with a superstructure.
No. 4 was also severely damaged. The building was intact, but it had clearly buckled, with concrete slabs blown out. The entire south side of the building was blown out, exposing the green crane for spent fuel rod pool.
At this point, around 1,640 feet from the reactors, I stopped to check my radiation reader: 50 microsieverts per hour"
Fackler later states that his the instruments showed readings up to 300 mS/h. As a reference a German NPP worker should not be exposed to more than 400 m/S per year meaning that at this hotspot you would get your yearly dosis in little more than an hour. Japanese and International Press remain very skeptical towards the management of the crisis in Fukushima. <br /><br />Sources:
<br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8886466/Eyewitness-report-inside-the-wreckage-of-Japans-Fukushima-nuclear-reactor.html
<br />http://enenews.com/ny-times-reporter-detects-300-microsieverts-per-hour-while-on-bus
http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-202_162-10010212-10.html?tag=img
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Guardian.co.uk: (c) Kyodo via AP-Images & Getty via CBSPhilippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-80121950967114834032011-11-06T15:21:00.000+01:002012-01-30T01:19:04.445+01:00Fukushima - Hotspots throughout JapanExplosions carry radioactive radionuclide far away. Throughout Japan, places of intense radioactivity are discovered, the so called "hotspots". The following reports show how problematic the situation really is, a report by Al Jazzera and a private measurment near Koriyama, 60km away from Fukushima. (Allowed yearly dose in Japan 20mSv/h)
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More signs of radiation sickness and symptomes in young children:
<br /><br /> Nov. 7 — “A survey shows that some children in Fukushima Prefecture have smaller average weight gains this year compared to the year before. A pediatrician says the results indicate the negative effects of the nuclear plant accident in March,” reports NHK.
“Doctor Shintaro Kikuchi tracked the weights of 245 children aged from 4 to 6 in 2 kindergartens in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture. The results show an average weight increase of 0.81 kilograms over the past year through June. The increase for children in the same age group the previous year was 3.1 kilograms.”Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-28492587211867575872011-11-03T23:19:00.001+01:002012-01-30T01:23:16.863+01:00Fukushima 8 Months Later<b>N.B for the English Article scroll down</b>
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Seit mehreren Tagen liest man in der Presse wieder vermehrt Berichte über den havarierten Atommeiler in Fukushima. In der Tat hat sich die Situation in Japan weiterhin verschlechtert. Die wohl am häufigsten gebrachte Nachricht der letzten Tage, Xenon-Gase seien in der Nähe des Kraftwerkes gemessen worden bestätigen somit die monatelange Befürchtung internationaler Experten: Es gibt eine unkontrollierbare Kernspaltung womöglich sogar in mehreren Reaktoren des beschädigten Kraftwerkes. Was bedeutet dies konkret: Xenon 133 und 135 sind radioaktive Gase die bei einer Kernspaltung freigesetzt werden. Die Halbwertzeit dieser Elemente sind zwar recht kurz von mehreren Stunden bis ein paar Tage, jedoch kann eine unkontrollierte Kettenreaktion zu weiteren Explosionen oder Freisetzung von noch mehr radioaktivem Material führen. Die Situation ist also somit sehr angespannt. Die Betreiberfirma Tepco pumpt weiterhin Borsäure in die havarierten Reaktoren um die unkontrollierte Kernspaltung zu stoppen. Neuesten Berichten zufolge bringt dies jedoch recht wenig, gegen Abend des 3. Novembers (Tokioter Zeit) entweicht weiterhin Xenon Gas aus dem havarierten Reaktor. Bei Tepco rechnet man nicht mehr vor Ende des Jahres damit die Kernspaltung unter Kontrolle zu bekommen. Doch immer mehr Studien werden in Japan publiziert mit teils dramatischen Ergebnissen: Dr. Masimichi Nishio, Kinderarzt und Leiter der nordjapanischen "Hokkaido Cancer Center" kennt das Problem: Zwischen 1995 und 2005 betreute er Kinder aus der Evakuierungszone von Tschernobyl und kommt zu der Schlussfolgerung, dass die Symptome bei japanischen Kindern ähnlich sind: Nasenbluten, Halsschmerzen, Müdigkeit, Durchfall geschwollene Lymphknoten, unerträgliche Kopf- und Bauchschmerzen. Auch die Fälle akuter Leukämie häufen sich an. Dr. Nishio verurteilt die japanische Regierung die weiterhin behauptet diese Symptome stammen von ganz normalen saisonalen Erkältungen. Weitere Symptome sind das Anschwellen der Augen, welches auch in Tschernobyl bei Mensch und Tieren beobachtet werden konn(t)en.
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> 8 months after the Fukushima-Daiichi the situation in Japan still worsens: New measurements confirm the presence of Xenon 135 & 133 gazes. Xenon is only generated during nuclear fission, proving thus that there is an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction going on in at least 2 reactors. On November 2nd, Tepco workers tried to stop the reaction by injection boric acid fluid into the reactor core, but haven't succeeded to cool down or stop the reaction. As the workers still struggle to gain control over the crippled reactors, Japanese pediatricians are very concerned about the rising number of acute leukemia cases and rising number of radiation sickness & poisonings. Dr. Nishio, Director of the Hokkaido Cancer Center is criticizing the Japanese government for not acting "appropriately". Japanese Health officials and the Ministry of Health state that symptoms such as diarrhea, paleness, headaches, swollen lymph notes, nose bleeds are merely signs of colds and not the radiation sickness. Dr. Nishio is renowned pediatrician and knows the subject of children exposed to radioactivity very well: Between 1995 and 2005 he travelled numerous times to the exclusion zone of Chernobyl and studied the effect of radiation on kids. More and more Japanese doctors are talking about swollen eyes, a typical symptom that can be observed when the thyroid has been exposed to huge amounts of radioactivity. <i>(check picture of cat from Fukushima Prefecture)
Kittens with swollen eyes in Fukushima Prefecture) </i><br />
<i>Katze aus der Evakuierungszone zeigen haben angeschwollene Augen, ein akutes Zeichen, dass die Schilddrüse radioakivem Material ausgesetzt ist.
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<br /><br /><b> Dr. Nishio from the Hokkaido Cancer Center shares his views:</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/e_O2j_f43P4" width="300"></iframe>Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888530470018143519.post-10084256403973495332011-08-15T13:44:00.003+02:002011-08-15T13:58:16.507+02:00Leserbrief: Fukushima 5 Monate danach<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmTYPKoNGLwFNCXYivKtmTHbzj4gcrOGlBQM2ambrPfRky-iEO9VykI1NjC3ltKhIPSJv-tjojbIZeAuvr9LqB4J00r7vQ8TVpJWJ9d-jhiI_LKAGzOrdzIGWGXxq20i6IZAI5eTFq7Suf/s1600/FukushimaDaiichiExplosion.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 162px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmTYPKoNGLwFNCXYivKtmTHbzj4gcrOGlBQM2ambrPfRky-iEO9VykI1NjC3ltKhIPSJv-tjojbIZeAuvr9LqB4J00r7vQ8TVpJWJ9d-jhiI_LKAGzOrdzIGWGXxq20i6IZAI5eTFq7Suf/s200/FukushimaDaiichiExplosion.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641047491142376114" /></a> Fukushima 5 Monate danach
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<br />Fünf Monate nach dem Supergau im Fukushima-Daiichi Kraftwerk findet man in der Presse immer weniger Berichte über den havarierten Atommeiler. Dies bedeutet jedoch keinesfalls, dass man Entwarnung geben kann, ganz im Gegenteil die Lage in Japan ist dramatisch. Die Betreiberfirma TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) verschweigt und verschönert Presseberichte, veröffentlicht nur zaghaft Fotos und Videos vom havarierten Reaktor. Die Pressebulletins von TEPCO enthalten/plakatieren meistens gut organisierte Aufräumarbeiten. Die inoffiziellen Fotos, die durch Aufräumarbeiter den sogenannte “Liquidatoren” nach außen gelangen zeigen jedoch ein ganz anderes Bild: Hektisch installierte Pumpen, improvisierte Kontroll- und Schlafräume für Arbeiter keine 50 Meter vom Reaktorkern entfernt usw. Das Krisenmanagement in Fukushima ist desaströs, Im direkten Vergleich zwischen Fukushima und Tschernobyl wirkt das sowjetische Krisenmanagement makabererweise schon fast exemplarisch. Seit mehr als 3 Wochen “vermisst” TEPCO knapp 200 Arbeiter und Liquidatoren. Ja genau, TEPCO behauptet diese seien spurlos verschwunden. Es handelt sich hierbei um « Liquidatoren » die in den ersten Wochen nach der Katastrophe im März und April angeheuert wurden, viele von ihnen waren Obdachlose, Verurteilte oder Außenseiter, kurz: Menschen die wohl keiner wirklich vermissen würde. Die Meldung, dass TEPCO im April sozial benachteiligte Menschen für Aufräumarbeiten einstellte sorgte damals noch für einen weltweiten Sturm der Entrüstung. Die logische Schlussfolgerung dieser Schandtat wird jedoch von uns allen lieber verdrängt.
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<br />TEPCO und die japanische Regierung verschleiern und vertuschen das Ausmaß der Katastrophe: Messungen werden hemmungslos zensiert oder später dementiert. Die richtigen Zahlen, die von Wissenschaftlern veröffentlicht werden, werden totgeschwiegen und kommen nicht bei der Bevölkerung Japans an. Universitäten und Technische Institute in Japan ermitteln mittlerweile eigene Werte. Das Ziel der japanischen Akademiker besteht darin, eine detaillierte und für die Bevölkerung einfach verständliche Kartographie der Radioaktivität herzustellen: Einer von ihnen ist Dr. Shinzo Kimura, Strahlenforscher und spezialisiert in Strahlenhygiene von der Hokkaido University. Als er sich im März wenige Tage nach dem Supergau nach Fukushima begab, konnte er bereits im einer Entfernung von 50km vor dem Kraftwerk erschreckend hohe Jod-131 Werte feststellen. Obwohl Jod-131 nur eine “Halbwertzeit” (die Zeit die ein “Radionuklid” braucht um seine Aktivität und Menge durch Zerfall zu halbieren) von etwas mehr als 8 Tagen hat, handelt es sich um ein sehr krebserregendes(Schilddrüsenkrebs) Isotop was bei Kernschmelzen in riesigen Mengen gemeinsam mit Jod-133 freigesetzt wird. Später wies Dr. Kimura in bewohnten Landstrichen noch Plutonium, Neptunium und Caesium in so hoher Konzentration nach, dass man bei einem gleichen Wert in der damaligen Sowjetunion sofort evakuiert hätte. Andere Gegenden zeigten Kontaminierungen von über 300 Mikrosievert pro Stunde, ein Wert der nicht einmal in einem der am stärksten kontaminierten Orte Tschernobyls gemessen wurde. (der sogenannte « Red Forrest » zu Deutsch : Roter Wald, ein 10km² großes Areal in dem die Bäume sich durch die hohe Radioaktivität rot-bräunlich verfärbten, bis dato eines der am meisten kontaminierten Plätze der Erde)
<br />Gestern veröffentlichte die Universität Hiroshima unter der Leitung von Dr. Satoshi Tashiro eine Studie, in der man die Schilddrüsen von 1149 Kinder der Präfektur Fukushima analysierte: Das Urteil ist erschreckend: Bei über 47 % der Kinder wurden Werte von bis zu 35 Millisievert nachgewiesen. Optimistische Studien besagen, dass 100 Milisievert für einen Erwachsenen Menschen schädlich sind und zu Komplikationen führen kann.
<br />Diese Beispiele illustrieren, wie dramatisch die Situation in Japan wirklich ist: Die Lage in dem havarierten Meiler ist noch immer nicht unter Kontrolle, und TEPCO gedenkt den Reaktor bis Ende des Jahres unter Kontrolle zu haben und dann mit dem Bau eines Sarkophages zu beginnen. Bis dahin entkommt die Radioaktivität noch tagtäglich aus den 4 havarierten Reaktorblöcken.
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<br />Eine jedoch kaum zu überprüfende Mitteilung hat mich am meisten schockiert, die Twitternachricht einer japanischen Krankenschwester aus Sendai, in der Miyagi Präfektur: (frei übersetzt aus dem Englischen): „Wenn wir ihre Haare kämmen fallen ganze Haarbüschel heraus... ihre weißen Blutkörperchen sind verschwunden ... sie übergeben sich, und haben unerträgliche Kopfschmerzen... es kommen immer mehr Patienten mit diesen Symptomen zu uns…“ Obwohl man diese Mitteilung nicht überprüfen kann erinnert sie uns doch ganz stark an die Berichte aus den sowjetischen Krankenhäusern im April und Mai 1986. Auch wenn Fukushima momentan nicht so viel Resonanz in der Presse findet, ist und bleibt ein es ein Aktualitätsthema… und dies für die nächsten Dekaden.
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<br />Quellen und Linksammlung:
<br />http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/5131
<br />http://enenews.com/first-time-plutonium-has-been-reported-outside-of-fukushima-plant
<br />http://nuclear-news.net/2011/08/01/widespread-radiation-contamination-being-monitered-by-japanese-civilians/
<br />http://enenews.com/45-kids-fukushima-survey-thyroid-exposure-radiation-50-millisieverts-year-equivalent-1-year
<br />http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_26.html
<br />http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_26.html
<br />Philippe Schockweilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668552382741678490noreply@blogger.com6