Thread: WHY IS'NT MSM REPORTING ON THE escalating DANGERS of Radiation, UPDATED

Fukushima Radiation a Serious Threat to North American Coast

Added by Brent Matsalla on January 3, 2014.

The Turner Radio Network (TRN) has recently issued a report on the Fukushima radiation being a serious threat to the West Coast of North America and others in the entire northern hemisphere. The report calls for anyone residing on the west coast to immediately start preparations for another round of dangerous atmospheric radiation. The radiation is coming from Reactor 3 in Fukushima’s nuclear disaster site in Japan. The nuclear reactor was damaged in Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

Tokyo Electric and Power Company (TEPCO) have confirmed through surveillance cameras that steam has begun to rise out of the severely damaged Reactor 3. This is not the first time steam was observed escaping the facility, there were four sightings of steam rising since December 19th and other reports from back in July 2013.

TEPCO is uncertain what details surround the steam plumes or why the change occurred. They are unable to investigate further due to the lethal radiation levels in building 3.

Some nuclear experts are saying that the steam could signify the start of a spent fuel pool meltdown. Building 3 still contains 89 tons of nuclear fuel that could potentially burn up and head into the atmosphere for North America. After the earthquake, Fukushima had three reactor meltdowns roughly 60 hours after the earthquake as reactors 4, 5, and 6 were currently off-line for maintenance. Building 3 exploded a few days after the earthquake from a build up of hydrogen gas.

Reactor 3 is slightly different from the other Fukushima reactors. It is a mixed-core reactor containing both uranium fuel and a uranium-plutonium oxide fuel mix (MOX). Building 3 still houses 514 MOX fuel rods making up the total of 89 tons.

TEPCO has started the decommissioning of the nuclear plant in November. Workers began the recovery and removal of over 1,500 possibly damaged nuclear fuel rods currently inside Building 4. The operation will see a total of 22 rod assemblies removed, transported, and safely stored with each assembly containing 50 to 70 nuclear fuel rods.

Not all experts are saying there is a serious threat to North America from Fukushima radiation. TEPCO says that radiation levels don’t increase when the steam is being released. Officials at the company say that the steam can be caused by rain or moisture in the air that has found its way to the hot reactor. This would explain the location of the steam arising from the reactor as it was observed escaping from the fifth floor of the building just above the reactor containment structure.

TEPCO also suggests that steam may be created from pellets of nuclear fuel that were possibly ejected during the explosion. If the pellets of fuel landed in the spent fuel pool which is located above the reactor, they have likely started to melt down and are now boiling off the pool’s water. However down-played, this has some worried that the situation can escalate out of hand very quickly with 89 tons of fuel being released into the atmosphere.

The warning that was issued suggested some preparatory measures for those living on the West Coast of North America. People on the western coast should make sure they are up to date with all the news. They also suggest sealing off doors, windows, and any light switches and wall outlets with plastic and tape. Any vents should also be covered and to protect one from the outdoors use TYVEK disposable suits and NIOSH N100-certified filter masks for all family members. Residents of the west coast should also wash obsessively to reduce any possibility of radiation contamination. Radiation will take two to three days to reach the West Coast from Japan.

Years after the disaster, radiation from Fukushima still poses many serious threats to the North American Coast. Threats may continue many years into the future as well. Recently $35 billion has been allocated for the rebirth of Fukushima.

http://guardianlv.com/2014/01/fukush...merican-coast/

Nuclear Expert: Why Steam From Reactor 3 at Fukushima Matters

January 5, 2014

In September of 2013, steam was observed coming from Reactor 3.

The average temperature in Fukushima was 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day time high.

According to Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR) spoke about the steam and warned that could be indicative of an under-reported problem.

Edwards explained that “nobody quite understands what’s going on . . . in fact there’s been several incidents of steam escaping.”

Mehran Keshe, nuclear scientist and founder of the Keshe Foundation, explained that TEPCO is not listening to scientists from all over the world that are in accord that Fukushima is responsible for the poisoning of Japanese citizens through contact with radioactive elements that are causing cancer.

Just a few months ago, TEPCO admitted they do not know why the steam began emanating and irresponsibly told the public that it was just a “puddle sitting atop the reactor and was not dangerous.”


TEPCO did report that they have not recorded an increase of radioactivity being released into the environment from Reactor 3. Essentially a steady stream of radioactive material has been seeping into the environment, and the downplay of the potential severity of the situation continued on.


The Japanese government will soon be approving legislation that would make leaking information about Fukushima a state offense, carrying a hefty criminal sentence.


on December 17th of last year, TEPCO began to “remove fuel assemblies from the Reactor 3 Spent Fuel Pool, removal of large-size debris in the Spent Fuel Pool”. Not long after this began, steam once again began to emanate from Reactor 3.
Since December 24th of 2013, reports coming directly from TEPCO’s website have confirmed that steam has been emanating from Rector 3.
The day time high during the 3 days in question was 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit).
Over the course of 3 days, reports continued to claim that no “abnormal plant conditions” have been identified at Rector 3 where the steam has been observed on camera.
Recent commentary on the steam rising from Rector 3 claims that because it is currently winter in “much of the northern hemisphere” that the steam is simply “hot water vapor [being] released daily” from the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant.
Under normal conditions , with temperature differences between the environment and the nuclear plant, this explanation would make sense.
Although the steam rising from Reactor 3 is undeniably more visible during the winter months, it is certainly not just ordinary “hot water vapor” as some media outlets may suggest.
Indeed, the winter weather water vapor theory does not account for TEPCO surveillance cameras recording steam rising from Reactor 3 in the middle of summer, as was shown in this video.
The specific elements contained within the steam should be the focal point of discussion in terms of properly appreciating the potential consequences yet to manifest at Reactor 3.
In 2011, at Reactor 3, the water in the reactor vessel evaporated.
Fuel became uncovered, and heated up to a temperature of 2,300 degrees Celsius.
It mixed with the materials of the structure to form magma called Corium.
The Corium flowed down to the bottom of the reactor vessel, which is made of steel.
According to Japanese investigators, the Corium pierced the reactor vessel before falling on the concrete basement inside the containment.


Questions about how much erosion to the concrete has occurred because of the Corium still remain unanswered.
The steam emanating from Reactor 3 is most assuredly radioactive.


In fact, TEPCO lied at first about Corium melting through concrete and steel casings.
The Institute of Applied Energy (IAE) pointed out that, at least in Reactor 1, the Corium did indeed melt through the barriers, causing the vessel to “tilt”.


Reactor 3 could be showing signs that Corium may be causational to a possible future disaster issue due to the mixture of Corium with the radioactive water which would cause a violent reaction.


on December 17th of last year, TEPCO began to “remove fuel assemblies from the Reactor 3 Spent Fuel Pool, removal of large-size debris in the Spent Fuel Pool”. Not long after this began, steam once again began to emanate from Reactor 3.
Since December 24th of 2013, reports coming directly from TEPCO’s website have confirmed that steam has been emanating from Rector 3.
The day time high during the 3 days in question was 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit).
Over the course of 3 days, reports continued to claim that no “abnormal plant conditions” have been identified at Rector 3 where the steam has been observed on camera.
Recent commentary on the steam rising from Rector 3 claims that because it is currently winter in “much of the northern hemisphere” that the steam is simply “hot water vapor [being] released daily” from the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant.
Under normal conditions , with temperature differences between the environment and the nuclear plant, this explanation would make sense.
Although the steam rising from Reactor 3 is undeniably more visible during the winter months, it is certainly not just ordinary “hot water vapor” as some media outlets may suggest.


Indeed, the winter weather water vapor theory does not account for TEPCO surveillance cameras recording steam rising from Reactor 3 in the middle of summer, as was shown in this video.
The specific elements contained within the steam should be the focal point of discussion in terms of properly appreciating the potential consequences yet to manifest at Reactor 3.


In 2011, at Reactor 3, the water in the reactor vessel evaporated.
Fuel became uncovered, and heated up to a temperature of 2,300 degrees Celsius.
It mixed with the materials of the structure to form magma called Corium.
The Corium flowed down to the bottom of the reactor vessel, which is made of steel.


According to Japanese investigators, the Corium pierced the reactor vessel before falling on the concrete basement inside the containment.
Questions about how much erosion to the concrete has occurred because of the Corium still remain unanswered.
The steam emanating from Reactor 3 is most assuredly radioactive.
In fact, TEPCO lied at first about Corium melting through concrete and steel casings.


Harvey Wasserman, nuclear energy activist, explained that during the 40 years he has been involved in activism, “no one ever talked about the possibility of multiple meltdowns, but that is what occurred at Fukushima.”
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TEPCO has been caught doctoring the readings and downplay the impact of Fukushima by ordering workers at the cleanup sites “to shield their dosimeter with lead covers to make the integral dose look lower than actual.”
Workers confirmed that “they covered the dosimeters with lead cases.”
TEPCO omitted to the public that leaks resulting in radioactive water being dumped into the Pacific Ocean.
In July of 2013, the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority (JNRA) finally told the press that the leaking of this deadly water from Fukushima had been occurring since the accident.

http://banoosh.com/blog/2014/01/05/n...shima-matters/

The Institute of Applied Energy (IAE) pointed out that, at least in Reactor 1, the Corium did indeed melt through the barriers, causing the vessel to “tilt”.
Reactor 3 could be showing signs that Corium may be causational to a possible future disaster issue due to the mixture of Corium with the radioactive water which would cause a violent reaction.

http://banoosh.com/blog/2014/01/05/n...shima-matters/

Fukushima keeps on giving … with new underground nuclear explosions

Posted by: Dr Pano Kroko | January 4, 2014


All these tremors, mini shakes, and earthquakes that You hear emanating from Japan’s Fukushima region are unnerving when you think of what happens when you mix nuclear energy plants and earthquakes. Especially when these tremors are located right beneath the Fukushima nuclear reactors that went into meltdown and have never stopped releasing RADIATION since march 12th of 2011.


Yet this is a staple of nuclear reactors everywhere. Without coolant, fuel rods can overheat and melt. In a serious meltdown, radioactive molten material falls through the floor of the containment vessel into the ground underneath. Couple this molten radiation releasing enriched plutonium core with unstable terrestrial groundswells and you’ve got a series of nuclear explosions going off today in Fukushima.
Because in the intervening three years the molten cores have sunk down and burrowed themselves deeply beneath the Fukushima
Nuclear plant continuously exploding and releasing lethal radiation into the ground, underground aquifer, and into the Pacific ocean. Now all of the earth’s elements are connected and what gets into the ground in Japan might end up in the water lapping your feet in the Pacific shores of Los Angeles where the surfing is great on the Malibu beaches or out in Zuma beach, but who cares?

Right?


The reality is even more sinister. Our Environmental Parliament nuclear scientists report that it is these very same Fukushima nuclear melt down cores and the spent nuclear fuel cells that are mixed up in the explosions of march 2011, and are still now setting off the nuclear explosions that in turn register as minor Richter scale seismic events, activities, and tremors, in the seismographs around the world.


Share this new knowledge, and understand that the Nuclear Industry is primarily a nuclear weapons industry and when you place nuclear plants that along with electricity produce enriched plutonium which then is classified as ‘spent fuel’ and placed in cooling pools to be preserved for some future use [???] you are courting disaster. And with the already unstable terrestrial groundswells in Fukushima — you’ve got a series of nuclear bombs exploding off continuously in the intervening three years since the March 12th 2011 initial explosion. Of course now the plutonium molten cores have passed the criticallity phase, have gone nuclear, and have burrowed themselves deeply beneath the Fukushima Nuclear plant.


That could be well enough except that they have been exploding all the while. Continuously exploding and releasing heavy radiation radio-isotops into the ground, underground aquifer, and into the Pacific ocean. The earth’s underground channels transfer all these elements all around and one can only guess where the radiation will turn up in massive deadly doses.
Proof of that series of cataclysmic nuclear events — akin to a continuous underground nuclear bomb series of explosions — has been received from Russia’s Department of Defense just a few hours ago.


Here it goes:
Underground Nuclear Explosions at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant as were reported by Russia’s Defense Ministry.
An edict issued from the Office of the President of Russia emanating from MoD, was sent today to all the Ministries of the Russian Government ordering that all “past, present and future” information relating to Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster now be rated at the highest classification level “Of Special Importance” states that this condition is “immediately and urgently needed” due to a series of underground nuclear explosions occurring at this crippled nuclear plant on the 31st of December as confirmed by the Ministry of Defense (MoD).


“Of Special Importance” is Russia’s highest classification level and refers to information which, if released, would cause damage to the entire Russian Federation.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a catastrophic failure at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant on the 11th of March 2011. The failure occurred when the plant was hit by the 9.0 magnitude Tōhoku earthquake that disabled it’s cooling systems and further incapacitated by the sea borne tsunami triggered from the earthquake.
The plant began releasing substantial amounts of radioactive materials beginning on the 12th of March 2011, thus becoming the largest nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the second (with Chernobyl) to measure at the highest Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES).


According to this report, MoD “assests” associated with the Red Banner Pacific Fleet detected two “low-level” underground atomic explosions occurring in the Fukushima disaster zone on 31st of December 2013, the first measuring 5.1 magnitude in intensity, followed by a smaller 3.6 magnitude explosion moments later. The MoD further reports that the 5.1 magnitude event corresponds to the energy equivalent in megatons of TNT of 0.0005, while the 3.6 magnitude event equals 0.0000005.


As a comparison, the MoD states that the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 by the United States released the equivalent of 16 Kilotons = 0.016 megatons of TNT, about the energy equivalent of a magnitude 6 earthquake, and the largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated was the Tsar bomb, a device exploded by the Soviet Union on 30 October 1961, with an energy equivalent of about 50 megatons of TNT.


Important to note, this report continues, was that the architect of Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3, Uehara Haruo, warned on 17 November 2011 warned that a “China Syndrome” (aka: Hydrovolcanic Explosion) was “inevitable” due to the melted atomic fuel that had escaped the container vessel and was now burning through the earth.


The MoD further reports that evidence that these underground nuclear explosions were about to occur began after mysterious steam plumes were first spotted on 19th December for a short period of time, then again on 24th, 25th, 27th of December, and confirmed by the report Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) owner and operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, published on its website.


Most curious to note, this report continues, is that the United States appears to have had a more advanced notice of these underground nuclear explosions as evidenced by their purchase earlier this month (6th of December 2013) of 140 million doses of potassium iodine, the compound that protects the thyroid gland of the human body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents. This iodine is to be delivered before February 2014.


With experts now estimating that the wave of radiation from Fukushima will be 10-times bigger than all of the radiation from the entire world’s nuclear tests throughout history combined, and with new reports stating that dangerous radiation levels have been detected in snows found in Texas, Colorado and Missouri, this MoD report warns the US, indeed, is going to face the severest consequences of this unprecedented, and unstoppable, nuclear disaster.


And this radiation fallout is not limited just to human beings since this nuclear disaster is unfolding but to all biological systems, and living things.


As new reports come in from the United States’ western coastal areas we become aware that we are now detailing with the mass deaths of fish, crustaceans, sea mammals, whales, seals, sea lions, polar bears, bald eagles, sea stars, turtles, king and sockeye salmon, herring, anchovies, and sardines — all due to the Fukishima nuclear accident radiation.
As to the American people being allowed to know the full and horrific mass death event now unfolding around them, this report warns, it’s not to be. As the FEMA and other response organizations of the Federal government have in effect, ordered all of their mainstream news media organizations not to report it. This was recently confirmed by former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur who was told not to warn the public about the danger posed by the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant during his time as a host on the cable network.


And with Russian experts now warning that Fukushima nuclear radiation pollution spreads all over the Earth since large amounts of fish, seaweeds, and everything living in the ocean has already been polluted, that these products are the main danger for mankind as they end up being eaten by the people on a massive scale.


This report warns that Putin’s order to classify all information relating to this nuclear mass death event “Of Special Importance” is vital to protect the economic and social stability interests of the Russian Federation as this global catastrophe continues to worsen by the day.
Yours,
Pano
PS:
The Mainstream News Media reported these underground nuclear explosions from Fukushima as minor earthquakes, thus explaining away the tremors resulting from these nuclear events.


So your expectation to know more about the state of health of your world and how to protect your own personal health, that of your family, and save your life. is thwarted by an all powerful collusive nuclear industry and it’s dissemination of misinformation about the daft attempts at stopping a nuclear core meltdown disaster.


We know it’s unstoppable now and so the one thing You can do is this:
Take your iodine and keep on smiling, sharing and networking. That’s about all we can do right now.

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TV: “Massive radioactivity release” at Fukushima going on for almost 3 years now; Visible steam “just the tip of the iceberg” — NHK: Containment vessels are ‘broken’ (VIDEOS)

Published: January 5th, 2014 at 7:23 pm ET

NHK, Jan. 4, 2014: [Underground] tunnels are believed to be one of the sources of radioactive materials that are polluting the groundwater at the facility on a large scale. [...] A large amount of highly radioactive water has accumulated beneath the plant. [...] TEPCO will set up radiation monitoring equipment at various hot spots on the floors of reactor buildings this month. The readings will be used to support the decontamination work by robots that will follow. TEPCO officials say they will also study how to remotely locate and repair holes in the reactor containment vessels. The vessels were broken in the nuclear accident.

Watch the broadcast here
The Big Picture, RT, Jan. 3, 2014 (at 5:00 in) — Kevin Kamps, Radioactive waste watchdog at Beyond Nuclear: It’s the weather conditions that make the steam visible, but what people need to realize is that we’re almost three years into this thing — those releases are happening every day. Those releases atmospherically [and] into the ocean are happening every day, they have been for three years, so that is the massive radioactivity release that’s going on. Once in a while it becomes more visible because of atmospheric conditions […] we’re seeing this heated water coming out of Unit 3 – it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Watch the broadcast here

http://enenews.com/nhk-containment-v...comment-440210

Sunday, January 5, 2014

RADIATION EFFECTS IN U.S. FROM JAPAN NUKE ACCIDENT

RADIATION EFFECTS IN U.S. FROM JAPAN NUKE ACCIDENT

Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:14

November 25, 2013 -- (TRN http://www.TurnerRadioNetwork.com ) -- Radiation reaching the United States from the nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima, Japan is causing significant harm; affecting newborn Human babies in California, Pacific Ocean sea life, and even inland wild life. Radiation is causing massive die-offs of sea life as well as mammals, birds and reptiles inland. High percentages of inland animals that are not already dead are losing their fur, bleeding from lesions all over their bodies and failing to reproduce. Radiation contamination of sea food is already confirmed and contamination of the inland food supply is now taking place as rain carries radiation from the Pacific ocean to inland farms. U.S. Government propagandists are claiming everything is all right - but they aren't even monitoring radiation levels - while scientists outside the government are warning the worst is yet to come. Newly released government projections (contained in this article) show parts of Hawaii, Alaska and the entire west coast of North America may become uninhabitable due to radioactive Cesium-137 making its way toward us in the Pacific. HOW IT ALL BEGAN The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a nuclear energy accident at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, caused by an earthquake and, later, a tsunami (tidal wave) generated by that earthquake on 11 March 2011. The tsunami caused equipment failures and without this equipment, coolant stopped flowing into the reactor cores allowing them to get so hot, they melted. During the meltdowns, radioactive materials were released into the air and water beginning on March 12, 2011. Fukushima is the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the second disaster (along with Chernobyl) to measure Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The plant comprised six separate boiling water reactors originally designed by General Electric (GE) and maintained by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). At the time of the earthquake, reactor 4 had been De-fueled and reactors 5 and 6 were in cold shutdown for planned maintenance. Immediately after the earthquake, following government regulations, the remaining reactors 1, 2 and 3 shut down automatically, inserting control rods in what is termed a "SCRAM event." Following this, emergency diesel generators came online to power electronics and coolant systems which operated right up until the tsunami. The tsunami arrived 50 minutes after the initial earthquake. The 13 meter (40 Feet) tall tsunami tidal wave overwhelmed the plant's seawall, which was only 10 meters (30 feet) high. The tsunami water flooded rooms in which the emergency generators were housed. The flooded diesel generators failed, cutting power to the critical pumps that must continuously circulate coolant water through a reactor to keep the fuel rods from melting down. Even though the control rods had come down and the nuclear reactions had halted, the fuel rods remained red hot following the SCRAM event. In fact, the rods remained hot enough to melt themselves down when no adequate cold sink was available. Once the diesel generators failed from the tsunami flooding, secondary emergency cooling pumps kicked-in; they were run by batteries. One day later, the batteries died for the secondary emergency pumps. The pumps stopped and the reactors began to overheat due to lack of water to cool the fuel rods. As workers struggled to supply power to the reactors coolant systems and restore power to their control rooms, the overheating reactors released hydrogen gas; an incredibly explosive gas. A number of hydrogen-air chemical explosions occurred, the first in Unit 1, on March 12 and the last in Unit 4, on March 15. These explosions tore the reactor buildings apart, and did severe damage to whatever cooling systems remained; making them all but useless. EXPLOSIONS OBLITERATE THREE REACTORS The first explosion took place on March 12. The remaining explosions took place by March 15. The results are shown below: CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE EXPLAINS THE DANGER In 2012, the Congressional Research Service reported to Congress as follows: "As it approaches the west coast of North America, the North Pacific Current splits into the southward California Current and the northward Alaska Current. Although these currents have the potential for bringing radiation from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident to U.S. waters, their flow is slow ... Regardless of the slow flow, radioactive contaminants with long half-lives (e.g., cesium-137, with a half-life of about 30 years) could still pose concerns if transported over long distances by ocean currents." Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution advised that radiation levels in seafood should continue to be monitored ... there remains the potential for a corridor of highly contaminated water leading away from Japan and a very patchy distribution of contaminated fish; extensive monitoring will determine the exact dispersion of these radioactive contaminants. [...] It has been suggested that cesium-137 may move up the food chain and become concentrated in fish muscle or that radiation hot spots may occur. Another potential concern is related to accumulation of strontium-90 in fish bone [...] additional radiation from [Fukushima] might eventually also be detected in North Pacific waters under U.S. jurisdiction, even months after its release. Regardless of slow ocean transport, the long half-life of radioactive cesium isotopes means that radioactive contaminants could remain a valid concern for years. FOOD CONTAMINATION On March 30, 2011, Mr. Lake Barrett, a former official with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and now an adviser to TEPCO, said "The environmental release is the growing challenge; you’re going to read more and more about it in the paper. Wait until the first cesium-137 shows up in Alaska salmon, which is only a matter of time." Mr. Barrett's warning was prescient. In 2012, out of twenty Pacific Tuna fish caught and tested from various points in the ocean, one hundred percent (100%) tested positive for radiation contamination! Researchers at Stanford University studied samples from 20 blue-fin tuna caught off California between May and August 2012 and said they detected radioactive cesium. They concluded the source of the contamination was the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. In British Columbia, Canada, Pacific Herring have been found to be bleeding from their eyes, mouths, fins and tails. Independent fisheries scientist Alexandra Morton is raising concerns about a "disease" she says is spreading through Pacific herring causing fish to hemorrhage. “I did a beach seine on Malcolm Island [near Port McNeill on northern Vancouver Island] and I got approximately 100 of these little herring and they were not only bleeding from their fins, but their bellies, their chins, their eyeballs. “It was 100 per cent … I couldn’t find any that weren’t bleeding to some degree." Morton dragged up several hundred of the fish and found the trouble had spread – instead of their usual silver color the fish had eyes, tails, underbellies, gills and faces plastered with blood. “I have never seen fish that looked this bad,” In June, the affected fish were only found in eastern Johnstone Strait, but have since spread to Alert Bay and Sointula, she said. COVER-UP BY TEPCO OF MASSIVE AND ONGOING RADIATION LEAKING INTO PACIFIC OCEAN On July 22, 2013, more than two years after the incident, it was revealed that the plant has been leaking 300 Tons of heavily contaminated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean EVERY DAY since the accident of March 11, 2011, something long suspected by local fishermen and independent investigators. TEPCO had previously denied this was happening and the situation prompted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to order the government to step in. It was then revealed how -- and how much -- radiation is pouring into the Pacific Ocean: On August 20, 2013 in a further incident, it was announced that an ADDITIONAL 300 metric tons of heavily contaminated water had also leaked from a storage tank at the plant and had gone into ground water and into the Pacific. What this means is that the water pouring out of that plant today is just as poisonous as the water that came out the first day this accident took place; and it has been that way for over 1,000 days -- and counting! Scientists at the University of Alaska are concerned because some radiation has arrived in northern Alaska and along its west coast. That's raised concern over contamination of fish and wildlife. More may be heading toward coastal communities like Haines and Skagway. Douglas Dasher, a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, says radiation levels in Alaskan waters could reach Cold War levels. "The levels they are projecting in some of the models are in the ballpark of what they saw in the North Pacific in the 1960s," he said. Those levels occurred after the US conducted open-air blasts of nuclear weapons in the south Pacific. This contamination is taking place because the major ocean currents running east from Japan, split as they approach the North American continent; part of the current heads north toward Alaska, the other part heads south toward the U.S. west coast. Those currents are carrying highly radioactive water from the Fukushima disaster throughout the Pacific ocean. NOVEMBER, 2013: SHARP INCREASE IN U.S. EFFECTS In November, 2013, enormous amounts of Star Fish on the sea floor off the California coast have begun dissolving into mushy piles of white goo. During an ocean dive Thursday morning, November 7, 2013 off the coast of Santa Cruz, Pete Raimondi [UCSC ecology professor] watched two halves of a broken sea star ravaged by a “wasting syndrome” walk away from each other. Not long after, they would turn into mushy piles of goo, disintegrated by a disease that has so far perplexed scientists. It appears the syndrome is impacting as many as 10 sea star species up and down the West Coast, wiping out entire populations in certain areas. “They can go from great -- to pieces -- in 12 hours,” said Raimondi. The Pacific Ocean is in the middle of a cooling trend, so biologists are at a loss to explain the outbreak. Others, speaking to Turner Radio Network on condition of anonymity fearing retaliation from authorities, said the cause has already been identified: radiation poisoning. These biologists have been threatened with losing their jobs if they reveal this publicly. On November 11, 2013 FOX NEWS reported that since June, researchers have seen the disease spread from as far as British Columbia, Canada, down through California and, within the past year, from Maine through New Jersey. The scientists tracking the disease find this simultaneous bi-coastal infection especially alarming. “There is no direct route to get from Providence to Seattle,” Gary Wessel, a molecular biologist at Brown University. However, when one considers the evaporation of radiation-contaminated water from the Pacific, being carried inland by weather systems, and the jet stream then carrying those weather systems to the east coast, the explanation becomes obvious. On November 23, 2013, thousands of dead sea birds began washing up on the shores of Alaska. Many of the carcases were broken open and bleeding. The toxic effects of radiation on sea life is getting so terrible it is actually causing sea creatures to flee the deep ocean and head toward the shores.On November 24, the New York Times reported: It began with the anchovies, miles and miles of them ... in the waters of Monterey Bay. Then the sea lions came, by the thousands ... then pelicans ... bottlenose dolphins in groups of 100 or more have been spotted. But it was the whales that astounded even longtime residents — more than 200 humpbacks ... and, on a recent weekend, a pod of 19 rowdy Orcas ... the water in every direction roiled with mammals. For almost three months, Monterey and nearby coastal areas have played host to a mammoth convocation of sea life that scientists here say is unprecedented in their memories ... never that anyone remembers have there been this many or have they stayed so long. Last month, so many anchovies crowded into Santa Cruz harbor that the oxygen ran out, leading to a major die-off. Marine researchers PUBLICLY say they are baffled about the reason for the anchovy explosion. PRIVATELY, they tell the Turner Radio Network the cause is Fukushima radiation but they've been told to keep quiet to avoid causing a public panic. INLAND WILDLIFE BADLY AFFECTED According to a November report by the U.S. Geological Survey: Alopecia (loss of fur) and skin lesions were recently observed in polar bears off the northern coast of Alaska. According to the Alaska Region Marine Mammal Stranding Network since the spring of 2012, a total of 23 polar bears from Barrow, Deadhorse and Kaktovik have been identified with variable degrees of hair loss/ thinning, inflamed and crusting skin, and oral lesions. The prevalence of these symptoms appears to be in about 28% of observed animals.The concurrent presence of hair loss in seals, walrus and polar bears has suggested a possible connection between the events. Biologists in Alaska have observed a high rate of non-viable eggs in nests of greater white-fronted geese. Northern fur seals and soil samples in Alaska are also showing unusual signs. In another study, the Alaska Science Center has documented surprisingly high mortality (20–30 percent) of adult female musk ox during mid- to late summer in northwestern Alaska. In Montana, Wyoming and inland to Minnesota, the effects of Fukushima are already being seen. According to the Billings (Montana) Gazette, Nov. 18, 2013: Jared Jansen said, he and his father, Mike, have seen up to 100 dead deer at a time along the Musselshell River. ... die-offs have whittled the once hardy deer herds down to a handful. “I’ve only seen three does this year. . . It used to be when I was haying along the river, early in the morning, I’d see 200 to 500 head in the meadows.” The reasons attributed to these die-offs sound like something out of a science fiction thriller: epizootic hemorrhagic disease, sylvatic plague, bluetongue, brucellosis, chytrid, chronic wasting disease ... Yet the all-too-real afflictions threaten to reduce the populations of wild mammals, birds and reptiles across Montana, Wyoming and other regions. “There is a general consensus among scientists that we are seeing more disease,” said Jonathan Sleeman, director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis. . . so many diseases afflicting such a wide variety of animals ... A study is being conducted in northwestern Montana to examine the possible causes." Others within the USGS who asked to remain anonymous for fear of their jobs say that radiation is the cause, but the government won't admit it because there is nothing they can do about it. In Minnesota, the Independent Record newspaper Oct. 31, 2013 reports Moose in the northern United States are dying ... The die-off is most dire in Minnesota, where ecologists say moose could be gone within a decade. Concerns have prompted a 10-year study of moose in Montana. It’s not just in Montana, either. An aerial survey of moose in northeastern Minnesota earlier this year showed a 52 percent drop in population, which prompted the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to completely call off the 2013 moose hunting season. In various regions of British Columbia [Canada], populations have declined from 20 to 70 percent in recent years. HUMAN BABIES IN CALIFORNIA ALREADY SHOWING SIGNS OF RADIATION EXPOSURE A new study of the effects of tiny quantities of radioactive fallout from Fukushima on the health of babies born in California shows a significant excess of hypothyroidism caused by the radioactive contamination traveling 5,000 miles across the Pacific. The article will be published next week in the peer-reviewed journal Open Journal of Pediatrics. Congenital hypothyroidism is a rare but serious condition normally affecting about one child in 2,000, and one that demands clinical intervention - the growth of children suffering from the condition is affected if they are left untreated. All babies born in California are monitored at birth for Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) levels in blood, since high levels indicate hypothyroidism. Joe Mangano and Janette Sherman of the Radiation and Public Health Project in New York, and Christopher Busby, guest researcher at Jacobs University, Bremen, examined congenital hypothyroidism (CH) rates in newborns using data obtained from the State of California over the period of the Fukushima explosions. Their results are published in their paper Changes in confirmed plus borderline cases of congenital hypothyroidism in California as a function of environmental fallout from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. The researchers compared data for babies exposed to radioactive Iodine-131 and born between March 17th and Dec 31st 2011 with unexposed babies born in 2011 before the exposures plus those born in 2012. Confirmed cases of hypothyroidism, defined as those with TSH level greater than 29 units increased by 21% in the group of babies that were exposed to excess radioactive Iodine in the womb. The same group of children had a 27% increase in 'borderline cases'. RADIATION ALERTS ISSUED FOR MULTIPLE U.S. CITIES - NO MEDIA COVERAGE The Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center (NETC) provides free radiation monitoring information to the public from about 300 private monitoring sites and many more government monitoring sites like "RADnet" from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the past ten days, the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center (NETC) has issued radiation alerts for several major U.S. cities after background radiation levels in those cities suddenly spiked to record high levels or jumped to fifty percent higher than normal in the "Counts Per Minute" (CPM) of deadly Gamma Radiation in the 600 - 800 keV range. Those Alerts are known as "RADCON - 5" Alerts because the radiation has climbed to the highest level on the 5 step scale. Despite the issuance of RADCON-5 Alerts, no mass-media in ANY of those cities, bothered to report the condition. Cities affected were / are: OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON RICHLAND, WASHINGTON RENO, NEVADA JUNEAU, ALASKA COMPARISON TO READINGS AT FUKUSHIMA Now that you've seen the numbers here in the U.S., take a look at the reading at Fukushima itself: AREAS OF THE USA, CANADA, EXPECTED TO BECOME UNINHABITABLE The graphic below, (File is 14.4 MB May Take Time to Load) produced by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) an agency of the United States Government, shows the MONTHLY predicted spread and potency of radioactive Cesium-137 from Fukushima throughout the Pacific Ocean. The GIF runs from March, 2011 when the disaster took place, all the way through to the year 2041. Based upon these projections, northernmost Hawaii will be uninhabitable by January, 2015. The government is concealing this to protect real estate values and tourism because there's nothing the government can do to stop the radiation. By October, 2016, all of southern Alaska including the Aleutian Islands will be uninhabitable. The government is concealing this to protect the fishing industry because there's nothing the government can do to stop the radiation. By June, 2017, the entire west coast of Canada and the United States will be uninhabitable. Both the U.S. and Canadian governments are concealing this to avoid a panic, to preserve real estate values in some of the wealthiest areas of both countries, to preserve farming and fishing industries in those areas from being driven out of business when consumers shun their products due to radiation contamination and because there is nothing the governments can do to stop the radiation. (Note: The government projection below uses only 1/3rd the amount of Cesium that was actually released initially and DOES NOT take into account the 300 metric tons of contaminated water which has leaked into the Pacific Ocean EVERY DAY since the accident in March, 2011.) To simply download the file above, right-click here and select "Save Link As" EXPERTS: THE WORST IS YET TO COME Beginning on Tuesday, November 26, 2013, TEPCO is to begin attempting to remove the 1,534 used fuel rods that remain inside Reactor #4. These rods contain pellets of nuclear materials like Uranium and Plutonium as well as other radioactive materials. Experts say that the fuel rods may snap during the removal process because the reactor pool is physically damaged and the rods may not be able to come out perfectly straight. In the event a rod snaps, and fuel pellets fall out from inside the rod onto the floor of the reactor pool, they could begin reacting with each other on the floor of the pool. They would become self-sustaining mini reactors, completely uncontrollable, boiling-off the pool water, thereby allowing the remaining fuel rods to overheat and meltdown and releasing tons of radioactive gases into the atmosphere. One byproduct of such a scenario would be large amounts of hydrogen gas. The temporary structure built around Reactor #4 after the earthquake, would hold enough of that hydrogen gas to make the equivalent of a nuclear explosion once the gas ignites. Experts say that if such a scenario takes place as TEPCO is removing the remaining fuel rods, "it is bye-bye Japan and people on the west coast of the United States and Canada would have only DAYS to evacuate to avoid lethal doses of radiation." Strange that the mass-media inside the United States is failing to report this. http://rolandsanjuan.blogspot.com/2014/01/radiation-effects-in-us-f...

Fukushima: We are not Being Given the Full Story


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We are four days into the New Year. For those who celebrated voraciously, hangovers are gone, heads are cleared and all are back into the routine of daily life. One of those routines for many is checking your Facebook page or other social media network. Now, if you are like me, you get what seems to be some pretty incredible posts, links or announcements so you may skim over them while uttering to yourself about the incredible amount of misinformation that mires the information super highway that is the internet.
Actually, I did the same thing to a posting thinking that if it were actually true, major news media outlets would pick it up. What was I thinking? Since that did not happen, I began to do my own research into this seemingly farcical piece. Needless to say, over one dozen windows ended up opened on my internet browser trying to discover where this all originated, is it true and what does it mean.
Here is the story to which I am referring, “Underground Nuclear Explosion At Crippled Japan Atomic Plant Shocks World.” Upon looking at the “source” from the bottom, it directs to a page called “What does it mean.” You can put it in any search engine and find the page, which then leads you to the same story.
After doing my own research, I am left with two burning questions – What in the Sam Hill is going on at Fukushima? And, why in the devil are the American public not being informed about recent developments?
Now, follow along with me here for just a moment. We all know that Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) initially lied to the international community about the severity of the accident at the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear plant in March 11, 2011. We now know that reactors 1 and 3 had meltdowns and reactors 1,3, and 4 experienced hydrogen explosions. We also know that Japan has enacted legislation that is intended to protect state secrets which might help in hiding “revelations about government mismanagement that helped trigger the Fukushima nuclear accident” and make leaking information about Fukushima a state offense, carrying a hefty criminal sentence. We are familiar with the stories regarding the 300 tons of water per day entering the Pacific Ocean since the accident. Reports of dying sea creatures along America’s Pacific coast have surfaced. A man sailing from Japan across the Pacific reported the ocean seeming dead or lifeless. Recently, it has been reported that our government has ordered millions of doses of Potassium Iodide. Remember the earthquakes around the ring of fire that has produced a new land mass? Yes, that was near Tokyo and a professor was urging attention to be paid then.
The 2011 interview with Michio Kaku, a respected professor and physicist, helps explain the severity. Pay close attention to what he says about America’s own Indian Point Nuclear Plant located in New York. A disaster at Indian Point could cost $200 billion. Also, remember from this interview that the federal government underwrites the insurance for all US nuclear plants since no insurance company will insure them; the federal government money comes from taxpayers. Did you catch the part where Obama is supporting the establishment of new nuclear power facilities for the US?
ENEnews, established after the Fukushima disaster to report the latest energy-related developments, reports that from December 19 – 27, 2013, steam was observed coming from the Fukushima Unit 3 reactor building. The same site reports the steam is from constant radioactive releases – coming from hot rubble, not new explosions. Just as recently as January 2, 2014, ENEnews posted that a nuclear expert indicated the Fukushima reactor cores melted into the ground and that radioactive material is getting washed out into the Pacific Ocean. On January 3, 2014, it was reported why the steam coming from Fukushima Unit Reactor 3 was important; “reactor 3 could be showing signs that Corium may be causational to a possible future disaster issue to the mixture of Corium with the radioactive water which would cause a violent reaction.”
Now, not being a nuclear physicist or scientist, I cannot attest to the truth of what will or will not happen with regards to this situation as the technical information amounts to speaking to me in a foreign language. What I can say is the information that I have highlighted, except for the initial story that started my search, should be taken as accurate and truthful. Nuclear disasters don’t happen and then are miraculously under control and stopped because the news media ceases to cover it. The Fukushima disaster is still active, is still potentially catastrophic and will remain so until it is under control; however, some experts think a disaster of this magnitude will not be able to be controlled.
On December 28, 2013, Turner Radio Network issued an urgent news flash: “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. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says radioactive steam has suddenly begun emanating from previously exploded nuclear reactor building #3 at the Fukushima disaster site in Japan. TEPCO says they do not know why this is happening and cannot go into the building to see what’s happening due to damage and lethal radiation levels in that building. Experts say this could be the beginning of a “spent fuel pool criticality (meltdown)” involving up to 89 TONS of nuclear fuel burning up into the atmosphere and heading to North America.”
So, what does all this mean? It means something very serious is occurring at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant that suffered a catastrophic nuclear disaster almost 3 years ago and there is virtually no information being presented through main stream media. It means, America, we are on our own when it comes to finding out important information that has the potential to impact our country and our very lives; therefore, we must take the precautions we deem necessary to protect ourselves.

Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/01/fu...S0jRrhrhDc1.99

Has Fukushima’s Radioactive Wave Already Hit California?


Health officials confirm spike in radiation on San Francisco beach but have no answers

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Infowars.com
January 6, 2014
Predictions that Fukushima’s radioactive ocean plume would hit the west coast of the U.S. sometime in 2014 may have already come to pass, with a new video showing Geiger counter readings of background radiation at a beach in San Francisco over five times the safe level.


Published on Dec 24, 2013
This shocking video was taken December 23rd 2013 with a quality Geiger Counter south of Pacifica State Beach (Surfers Beach) California.

Background radiation reading is 30 CPM. Near the ocean it's 150 CPM. The moister coming from the ocean waves seems to be what makes the Geiger Counter jump up 5X. This is not normal at all. More thorough readings need to be done. Where is the useless government/media? Thanks to rense.com for originally publishing this video.

Location:
https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Half+Mo...

Geiger Counter used:
http://www.geigercounters.com/Inspect...

Original video source and info:
http://www.rense.com/general96/radiat...

Radio interview about this video (excellent info):
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/s...

Massive starfish deaths on West Coast:
http://www.naturalnews.com/043271_sta...
http://www.news1130.com/2013/12/30/st...

All sardines gone from West Coast of BC:
http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Su...

Bald eagles dying in Western US:
http://enenews.com/high-alert-mystery...

Unprecedented declines in Alaska and BC salmon:
http://enenews.com/newspaper-is-fukus...

Real-time radiation monitoring for North America:
http://www.radiationnetwork.com

NOTE: The Radiation Network website, for example, uses a threshold warning level of 100 CPM, mainly because it is unusual to observe levels of 100 or higher without something more going on in the area than just background level.

From the Inspector Geiger Counter's user manual: "CPM (or CPS) and total counts are the most direct methods of measurement; mR/hr (or uSv/hr) is calculated using a conversion factor optimized for Cesium-137, so this mode is less accurate for other radionuclides, unless you have calibrated the "geiger counter" for a specific radionuclide using an appropriate source. It is more appropriate to measure alpha and beta activity using CPM than using mR/hr. Conversion for alpha and beta emitters is calcuated differently, and the "geiger counters" reading in mR/hr may not be accurate."

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Days after a YouTube video emerged showing background radiation at a Coastside beach reaching over 150 micro-REM per hour, Health officials in San Mateo County confirmed the spike but said they were “befuddled” as to its cause.

However, officials dismissed the possibility that the readings could be linked to Fukushima radiation reaching the west coast despite forecasts by experts last summer that radioactive particles from Fukushima would reach U.S. coastal waters in 2014.
The video shows a man measuring radiation readings at different spots on a beach south of Pillar Point Harbor. Background radiation in the areas immediately surrounding the beach are normal, but once the man approaches the water itself, the radiation spikes to at least 500 per cent safe levels and the Geiger counter’s alarm goes off.
The man behind the video claims that on his previous visit to the same beach, radiation readings were 13 times the safe level.
“In the following days, other amateurs with Geiger counters began posting similar videos online,” reports the Half Moon Bay Review. “The videos follow other alarming news last month that starfish were mysteriously disintegrating along the West Coast, a trend that has not been linked yet to any cause.”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state Department of Public Health are now investigating the cause of the radiation and more information is expected to be released this week.

Image: Extent of Fukushima radiation by 2014. (Rossi et al./Deep-Sea Research).

While officials will almost certainly downplay the situation in order to prevent panic, it’s important to remember that genuine public health crises are virtually always preceded by government duplicity.
TEPCO and the Japanese government have repeatedly been caught lying in their efforts to downplay the scale of the Fukushima disaster. In September it was confirmed that radiation readings around the power plant were 18 times higher than previously reported by TEPCO. After a tank leaked 300 tonnes of toxic water in August, groundwater radiation readings at the plant soared to 400,000 becquerels per litre, the highest reading since the nuclear accident occurred in March 2011.
EPA officials in America also lied in the weeks after 9/11 when they told rescue workers and the general public that the air at ground zero was safe to breathe. According to insiders, EPA officials knew that the dust in the air was laden with asbestos but chose to cover up the truth, leading to at least 20,000 ground zero workers suffering debilitating illnesses and numerous deaths.
Mainstream media outlets have also largely toed the line on Fukushima despite overwhelming evidence of a cover-up of the true scale of the crisis by Japanese authorities. Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur was told not to warn the public about the danger posed by the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant during his time as a host on the cable network.
Concerns that the federal government is preparing for some form of nuclear emergency have heightened after it was revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide, the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents, to be delivered before the beginning of February.
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This article was posted: Monday, January 6, 2014 at 9:57 am
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What I find interesting they ignored the radiation for as long as possible... then when some guy goes out there and proves the point that there is an accumulation of radiation that could cause health issues.....they are now trying to say that it could be from anywhere.....when San Fran is a direct line of ocean current contact from Fukushima and it is leaking tons of contamination daily......long story short, they think we are a bunch of idiots who will believe anything.....Now days Greed supercededs everything and that means people's health as well. People need to be thinking for themselves and not believing anything MSM or the government says at this point IMO.

A man sailing from Japan across the Pacific reported the ocean seeming dead or lifeless. Recently, it has been reported that our government has ordered millions of doses of Potassium Iodide. Remember the earthquakes around the ring of fire that has produced a new land mass? Yes, that was near Tokyo and a professor was urging attention to be paid then.

This in ITSELF is a huge indicator that we are in BIG trouble!!!!