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Institute for Public Accuracy Friday, May 13, 2011 Dangers of -- and Subsidies to -- U.S. Nuclear Industry The Boston Globe reports today: "Nuclear plant emergency generators like those that failed in Japan following the March earthquake and tsunami also failed during tests at the Seabrook Station in New Hampshire and 32 other U.S....
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A few interesting comments I have heard.. A) Knowing that the DPJ and LDP have both promoted nuclear power because they get money from the industry, why is Kan suddenly anti-nuclear in his closing of Hamaoka for the time being? B) Why did one of his advisers, rapidly pro nuclear himself, suddenly quit the Kan advisory position he held?I t could be that they both looked into the...
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ご協力お願い：海洋調査、菅首相は1万人の声を無視？━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━4月29日から始めたオンライン署名 「日本政府にお願い 虹の戦士号に調査許可を！」には、 わずか1週間で8,000近くののご参加をいただきました。http://www.greenpeace.org/japan/Action/rainbow/?20110506gvさらに、日本のためにグリーンピース本部が発信し、世界中のグリーンピースに広まった首相官邸宛へのツイッター（Twitter）メッセージは約3,000通に達しています。http://bit.ly/mE4OBL合計1万人を超える方が参加して下さっていますが、 5月6日現在、依然として政府からは領海内での調査は許可されていません。ただ、...
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By ROBERT ALVAREZMay 5 is Children's Day, a Japanese national holiday that celebrates the happiness of childhood. This year, it will fall under a dark, radioactive shadow.Japanese children in the path of radioactive plumes from the crippled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power station are likely to suffer health problems that a recent government action will only exacerbate.On April 19...
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http://japanfocus.org/events/view/84May. 01, 2011: David McNeill in Fukushima City Like most Japanese parents, two months ago Sasaki Takayuki barely knew what radiation was. Today, he thinks about little else. “I’ve sent my kids to my wife’s family in Tokyo,” says the baker and father of two. “I told her to stay there till it’s safe but who knows when that will be? We’ve all been left...
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20 Millisieverts for Children and Kosako Toshiso’s ResignationJAPAN FOCUS http://japanfocus.org/events/view/83 Tokyo University Professor Kosako Toshiso, a specialist on radiation safety, has resigned his position as Special Advisor to the Cabinet. In the past, Kosako has supported Japanese government views on radiation in a variety of contexts. For example, from 2003 he testified...
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/177926.htmlJapanese govt. under fire for schoolyard radiationMon May 2, 2011 7:27PMMichael Penn, Press TV, Tokyo WATCH: Download |Also available hereWhat is making them angry is a new government edict saying that schoolyards in Fukushima Prefecture should operate normally unless exposed to radiation levels that exceed 20 millisieverts annually. This number raises...
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Japan’s Nuclear NightmarePosted on March 18, 2011 by Tim ShorrockPart One: Japan, Democracy, and the Globalization of Nuclear Power(Updated throughout 3/20/2011)Part Two: Nuclear Gypsies (posted 3/20/2011)Update: My interview about the Japanese nuclear crisis on RT’s Alyona Show on 3/18/2011.Since I woke up last Friday, I’ve been monitoring the terrible...
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Apr. 23, 2011: By David McNeill http://japanfocus.org/events/view/79 The worst-case scenario of Japan’s nuclear crisis, reportedly floated by Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the dark night of March 16, that much of the east of the country including Tokyo could be “wrecked” has been averted. The reality though is shocking enough. A 20km zone around the ruined Daiichi nuclear...
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http://japanfocus.org/events/view/77 By R. Taggart Murphy “3/11” is emerging as new shorthand for The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011 and its aftereffects: the tsunami that destroyed much of Japan's northeast coast, and the crippling of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant . The sobriquet has the virtue of brevity; it also, of course, calls directly to mind...
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http://www.japanfocus.org/-Arjun-Makhijani/3509What Caused the High Cl-38 Radioactivity in the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor #1?[1]What Caused the High Cl-38 Radioactivity in the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor #1?[1]A bilingual Japanese-English text is available here.THIS IS A PDF. You can see the content of the Japanese PDF at the bottom of this article without the photos.F. Dalnoki-Veress...
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By Matthew Penney On April 12 it was revealed that the Japanese government is deliberating raising the level of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster to 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale of the International Atomic Energy Agency. This is the highest level and the same as the 1986 Chernobyl accident. At the same time, the Japanese government has made moves...
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By Arjun Makhijanihttp://www.japanfocus.org/events/view/69Total releases of radioactive iodine-131 and cesium-137 from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactors in Japan now appear to rival Chernobyl. As a result, there is now fallout through the northern hemisphere, with hot spots appearing due to rain. For instance, rainwater in Boise, Idaho, on March 22, 2011, was reported by the...
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A friend had a chance to measure the levels at ground level: on the grass in Sagami-ono, Kanagawa-Ken, the radiation was 0.240 microsievert. This is relatively high. While Tokyo-to, about an hour or so north of there is said to have an official level of 0.05, the reason is that the monitoring stations are high up off the ground. One in Bunkyo-ku is consistenly regsitering greater...
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Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. Posted April 8, 2009.UPDATE: At least one nuclear-powered U.S. warship is reportedly
on its way to the scene of the hijacking off the coast of Somalia of a
vessel owned by a major Pentagon contractor. A U.S. official told the Associated Press
the destroyer USS Bainbridge is en route while another official said
six or seven ships are responding to the...
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