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Nearly 30 years ago, the world's worst nuclear disaster struck the then-thriving town of Pripyat in Ukraine. The day after, 50,000 residents were evacuated from their homes, never to return. 
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"Le nucléaire va-t-il faire tomber l’un des pays les plus puissants de la planète ? A la lumière du chantier pharaonique de Fukushima, et des milliards dépensés afin de tenter de sauver ce qui pourrait l’être, la question de la survie du Japon pourrait se poser..."
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Comme le confirment des élus membres du parti au pouvoir : « Il s'agit de museler la presse, d'enfermer les lanceurs d'alertes et d'assurer que la catastrophe nucléaire de Fukushima cesse d'être une source d'embarras ...
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The story of Fukushima should be on the front pages of every newspaper. Instead, it is rarely mentioned. The problems at Fukushima are unprecedented in human experience and involve a high risk of radiation events larger than any that the global community has ever experienced. It is going to take the best engineering minds in the world to solve these problems and to diminish their global impact.
When we researched the realities of Fukushima in preparation for this article, words like apocalyptic, cataclysmic and Earth-threatening came to mind. But, when we say such things, people react as if we were the little red hen screaming "the sky is falling" and the reports are ignored. So, we’re going to present what is known in this article and you can decide whether we are facing a potentially cataclysmic event.
Either way, it is clear that the problems at Fukushima demand that the world’s best nuclear engineers and other experts advise and assist in the efforts to solve them. Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.org and an international team of scientists created a 15-point plan to address the crises at Fukushima.
A subcommittee of the Green Shadow Cabinet (of which we are members), which includes long-time nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman, is circulating a sign-on letter and a petition calling on the United Nations and Japanese government to put in place the Gundersen et al plan and to provide 24-hour media access to information about the crises at Fukushima. There is also a call for international days of action on the weekend of November 9 and 10. The letter and petitions will be delivered to the UN on November 11 which is both Armistice Day and the 32nd month anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Click headline to read more-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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Malgré les efforts du gouvernement japonais et de la compagnie Tepco pour faire croire à un retour à la normale à Fukushima, la situation sur le site nucléaire reste extrêmement critique. Le sous-sol de la centrale est en train de s’affaisser dangereusement et un séisme risquerait de tout précipiter dans la mer. Voici une synthèse de la situation, trente mois après la catastrophe. Via Fondation MSH
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the utility company that operates the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear power facility, has on Sunday released estimate figures on how much radiation-contaminated water has leaked out of its facility, the first such data the company has released to the public since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami caused a multiple reactor meltdown at the facility. TEPCO estimates the total amount of radioactive water leaked into the Pacific Ocean since May 2011 to be between 20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels.
Last month, the embattled operator confirmed the suspicions of ocean contamination held by the public and Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA). The NRA had earlier said that it doubted TEPCO’s continued claims at that time that the toxic water was contained safely in the facility. Of these current numbers, TEPCO said that the scale of the radioactive leak from May 2011 to July 2013 was still around the allowed level under safety regulations before the accident, which was set at 22 trillion becquerels annually. TEPCO said that it would also be estimating the amount of strontium – another byproduct of the decommissioning process which is unfortunately cancer-causing – that may have also leaked out over the years.
Click headline to read more-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
Jason Grybaitis's curator insight,
July 18, 2014 3:45 AM
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has leaked between 20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels of radiation contaminated water into the pacific ocean since the 2011 disaster. To put this into perspective, that's between 800,000 to 1,000,000 Liters of contaminated water in our ocean.
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"Les essais nucléaires qui ont eu lieu dans le sud du Pacifique entre 1960 et 1970 ont été beaucoup plus nocifs pour l’environnement et la population que ne l’a laissé entendre le gouvernement jusqu’à présent.
Selon Le Parisien, qui a eu accès à la partie déclassifiée du dossier, ce serait toute les îles de Polynésie françaises qui auraient été contaminées lors des 210 essais nucléaires qui ont eu lieu dans le pacifique durant cette période..."
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"Earlier this year I had the opportunity to visit Chernobyl whilst working for CBS News on a '60 Minutes' episode which aired on Nov. 23, 2014. Bob Simon is the correspondent. Michael Gavshon and David Levine, producers."
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"Turner Radio Network (TRN) has issued a report regarding Fukushima Diachi Nuclear Plant that is expected to affect the entire Northern Hemisphere." "According to the report: “Persons residing on the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan.” Turner Radio Network (TRN) has issued a report regarding Fukushima Diachi Nuclear Plant that is expected to affect the entire Northern Hemisphere. According to the report: “Persons residing on the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan.” TEPCO has confirmed that via camera surveillance, that steam has begun to pour from Reactor 3, although they have “not been identified abnormal plant conditions.” - See more at: http://www.occupycorporatism.com/tepco-quietly-admits-reactor-3-melting-now/#sthash.vewdjzYl.2muWFFQk.dpuf
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"225 m3 of highly contaminated rainwater leaked and possibly sank underground in other 2 tank areas. According to Tepco, they found the water level of retained “rainwater” dropped from 12cm to 5cm, and from 12cm to 1cm in 2 tank areas from 12/20 to 12/24/2013. Because the leaked water wasn’t found around those tank areas, Tepco assumes it was absorbed by the ground. Nobody noticed the water level was dropping for 3 days until 12/24/2013..."
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"Après le passage du puissant typhon Wipha sur l'est du Japon, l'opérateur de la centrale accidentée de Fukushima, Tepco, a indiqué jeudi 17 octobre avoir retrouvé de l'eau fortement radioactive dans un fossé menant à la mer. Des niveaux de 1 400 à 2 300 becquerels par litre de rayonnements bêta (provoqués notamment par le strontium 90) ont été décelés dans ce fossé qui relie la zone montagneuse, où sont installés des réservoirs d'eau radioactive, à l'océan Pacifique. Tepco n'avait jamais mesuré de telles concentrations dans ces points, contrôlés tous les jours..."
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'Memories for the Future' Project: In March 2011 a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, causing unimaginable damage.
Via un site appelé "Mirai no kioku" (Mémoire pour l'avenir), Google offre grâce à son outil "Street View" des images de 12 agglomérations désertées de la préfecture de Fukushima, dont les cités de Futaba et Okuma, à la frontière desquelles se trouve la centrale ravagée Fukushima Daiichi.
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"La catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl en avril 1986 a provoqué une forte augmentation des maladies thyroïdiennes, dont des cancers, en Corse, l'une des régions françaises les plus exposées au nuage radioactif, selon une enquête indépendante italienne présentée jeudi 4 juillet à Ajaccio.[...] Concernant les enfants, selon l'enquête, "le risque de thyroïdite chez les moins de 18 ans vivant en Corse et exposés au nuage de Tchernobyl est augmenté de 62,5 % par rapport aux enfants n'ayant pas été exposés"..."
Nessy du Loch's curator insight,
July 8, 2013 10:46 AM
"MENSONGE D'ÉTAT
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Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.TEPCOLast week, a third-party panel of external experts appointed by TEPCO and led by former US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chair...
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