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Only like “the contents of a can of soda…” – How they spin the gravity of Hanford’s leaking nuclear waste tanks…

(This is a follow-up on  The Hanford Site, holding the Pacific Northwest at Nuclear Gunpoint  from the end of May 2013.) The shortlink for this blogpost is http://wp.me/puwO9-23a I read stuff…  Like this, dutifully reported by King 5 News, whose reports … Continue reading

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Radioisotope Analysis Results for sampled Seaweed, Soil & Mushrooms – (Northern Humboldt County, California)

Okanogan Valley, Northern Washington (USA) – June 5, 2013 - [DISCLAIMER] –> The shortlink for this blogpost is http://wp.me/puwO9-22Y In my blog post, “Radiation Fallout Maps for the United States (May 1, 2012)”, I pointed out that land spots in the Pacific Northwest received … Continue reading

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My visit to Hanford’s “Reactor B’, World’s First Full-Scale Plutonium Factory.

To visit this monumental relic of  modern industrial war insanity yourself, go here. As I mentioned in my previous blogpost, “The Hanford Site, holding the Pacific Northwest at Nuclear Gunpoint“, I visited the ‘B Reactor’ at the Hanford Site. Plutonium manufactured at … Continue reading

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Contemplation

Quote and Image combined, both plucked from http://askaboutfukushimanow.com/ (PS: Artist was not credited, so if you know whose the image is by, please comment so I can add that. tx.)

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Useless Nuclear Disaster Information! — [Fukushima Update - February 2013]

Our planetary nuclear situation will remain rather unaffected by me merely sharing bits and pieces of recent radiation data.  We need technologies invented or implemented to make the abundance of clean & simple fuel-free electrical power available to all, quickly. … Continue reading

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Just off Japan Coast (past 24 hours ): A 7.3 (with 1 meter Tsunami), followed by a 6.2 and half dozen 5.0+ Earthquakes. Fukushima NPP temporarily evacuated. No evidence of significantly rising Radiation Levels. (Dec 7, 2012 – 9:45am Pacific Standard Time – Update)

TV News Report: 7.3 Quake Hits Japan, Small Tsunami, Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool Still Standing: The quake was an aftershock of the 9.0 Quake of March 11, 2011 (= Part 1 of my ‘One Year Later’ 2-part overview of the quake, … Continue reading

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Fukushima Radiation Measurements (a Dec 5, 2012 snapshot, for reference, with data sources)

Mad River Tap Room, Blue Lake, CA – Dec 5, 2012 I added another radiation data source to my list of Radiation Monitors in Japan: http://ma-04x.net/all.html h/t: Fukushima Diary‘s Dec. 1, 2012 reporting: ’Radiation level spiked up in west coast of Japan for about … Continue reading

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Fukushima Update by Beyond Nuclear on RT

Paul Gunter, of Beyond Nuclear, joins Thom Hartmann, published on Jul 3, 2012 by TheBigPictureRT: (h/t EneNews.   An other good Fukushima info source: Ex-SKF.) Various topics touched upon in the above interview: For the first time since before last year’s March earthquake and … Continue reading

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Blog Milepost 75,000 Views – Last blogpost rehash – Fukushima News Sources

Last day of May 2012.  Blogpost #311.  I consider this a blogpost of utter public irrelevance. It’s more like a milepost on my blogging path.  A record four comments (ha), 300 direct views in a week of one blogpost (previous … Continue reading

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Fukushima’s Cs-137 is NOT “Four Chernobyls” ! (Russia Today spreading misinformation)

I made a couple edits to my May 6, 2012 overview post, “One year later – Part 2: The Ongoing Fukushima Daiichi NPP Disaster.”.    Reporting on the issue has been rather confusing.  Earlier today I posted “Fukushima Already Released more … Continue reading

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New Documentary: “Hibakusha – from Hiroshima to Fukushima, Nuclear Capitalism Tries to Rebound”

Documentary Film:  “ Hibakusha – from Hiroshima to Fukushima,  …………………………….   Nuclear Capitalism Tries to Rebound ” This anti-nuclear documentary, ‘Hibakusha’, combines interviews with the victims of the current nuclear disaster with comments from those who survived the bombing of Hiroshima.  (Note: ’hibakusha‘ (被爆者) is a Japanese word … Continue reading

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Radiation Research Society – 14th Report. Low Level Radioactivity More Carcinogenic than previously known.

(Had this in draft all week… Might as well post it):  — Not the most joy-inducing reading material, but a new landmark study of atomic bomb survivors regarding the effects of radioactivity (ionizing radiation), uncovered that the risks for low level … Continue reading

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Fallout Maps: Source moved to…

Just a quick updating of a popular map source, below.  I can see what people click on and when I see a lot of clicks on something, I tend to test the link.  In the case of the Sept 29, … Continue reading

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Fukushima Regional Modeled Radiation: Next 20 years (METI maps)

April 24, 2012 – Colorado. The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) just published (April 23, 2012) a radiation map showing that the hardest-hit areas will continue to see dangerously high fallout-caused external radiation levels for decades to come. … Continue reading

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Spent Fuel Pool 4

The first half of THIS POST, a couple days ago, was all about SFP 4, at the still extremely troubled Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. Siting many of my same sources, I want to add this excellent overview from … Continue reading

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