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NRC Chairman writes about enhancing safety after a visit to Fukushima, Japan

ByRod Adams

…remediating the site, a testament to the resilient spirit of the people of Fukushima and Japan. This said, immense work is still ahead at the Fukushima site and the surrounding areas – work that will take decades to complete. On reflection, I can’t help but be reminded of the important role the NRC performs for the nation; the work we have underway to further enhance reactor safety; and the renewed importance of ensuring no accident like this happ…

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Fukushima is not contaminating Pacific

ByGuest Author

…f1/smp/2014/images/2tb-east_map-e.pdf 3 – http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-commentary/fukushima-commentary-10.html 4 – http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2014/images/handouts_140905_03-e.pdf 5 – http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2014/images/2tb-east_14090801-e.pdf 6 – http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-nuclear-reactor/ 7 – http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/cnf_sectionE.htm#v2 Note: The above originall…

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Butterflies are not human analogs. Radiation not only mutagen released in Fukushima by tsunami

ByRod Adams

…icrod Have you seen this making the rounds – now mutant butterflies due to Fukushima! Any debunking resources? http://news.discovery.com/earth/mutant-butterflies-spawned-by-fukushima-disaster-120814.html … I am not an entomologist and have never studied the radiation health effects on insects, but I am aware of some important facts about the topic. The first is that insect biology is VASTLY different from human biology. The second is that the amou…

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Furious About Fossil Fuel Funded Fukushima Frenzy

ByRod Adams

…le world from that tragedy and to focus our attention on the events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. I believe that collective decision was motivated by a desire to distract us all from the incredible tragedy of a modern society decimated by a natural event and to take advantage of that tragedy to further other preexisting agendas. There is a reason there were so many “clean natural gas” advertisements aired during the Fukushima Fre…

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Atomic Show #199 – Fukushima happened 2 years ago

ByRod Adams

…any human being. Here is a brief synopsis of the events that have turned “Fukushima” into one of the most frequently found words on the internet. Immediately after a very powerful earthquake and tsunami hit the north east coast of Japan, killing at least 16,000 people and destroying the man made infrastructure over more than 100 miles of the Japanese coast, the word “Fukushima” was still not well known outside of Japan. We were focused on the tra…

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Fukushima Nuclear Accident – Exceptional Summary by Murray E. Miles

ByRod Adams

…re upwind or upriver requires a degree of trust. (and as media coverage of Fukushima has shown – everywhere is upwind or upriver.) Even before Fukushima, nuclear advocates needed to work on building trust. Afterwards, so much the moreso. Advocates whose first impluse is to downplay risks and leap to the most helpful assumptions don’t build trust over the medium to long term, they damage it. Food for thought. Thanks for the blog – I hope you didn’t…

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As Fukushima gets moved from 5 to 7 remember that 0 (deaths) is still an applicable number

ByRod Adams

…he renewable energy business has also worked hard to portray the events at Fukushima as a reason to invest in their unreliable and expensive sources of electricity. This screen shot is not atypical of the kind of material that you can find with Google searches that link Fukushima and renewable energy. The more I read about all of the businesses that hope to benefit from the aftermath, the more convinced I become that at least some of the hype is c…

Opportunities and challenges: Cleaning up Fukushima Daiichi
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Opportunities and challenges: Cleaning up Fukushima Daiichi

ByRod Adams

…about water leaking from a crack in a concrete structure full of water at Fukushima. Did you hear that the leak has now been stopped? During a hearing of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 6, 2011, Rep. Ed Markey drew a comparison between the leak at Fukushima and the Deepwater Horizon oil gusher. Here is what he said: “To assess and then sop up the radioactive water that has begun spewing into the ocean, they are relying on the…

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WORLDbytes – After Fukushima: The Fear Factor

ByRod Adams

…to 1.752 millisieverts a year is very bad 4) Mutations are more likely at Fukushima than they were in Chernobyl 5) Fukushima, a civil nuclear plant, was 20 times more dangerous than the nuclear bomb at Hiroshima They don’t pay him a lot. Michael You mean storm Irene. It barely reached hurricane status and then collapsed but the irrational panic wouldn’t stop. Michael But the response to an accident can be compared when its the same central govern…

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How much I-131 and Cs-137 was released into atmosphere at Fukushima?

ByRod Adams

…ns a paper titled Source term estimation of atmospheric release due to the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident by atmospheric and oceanic dispersion simulations. Using the best available data and models it provides new estimates for the total quantity of I-131 and Cs-137 that was released into the atmosphere by the events at Fukushima Dai-ichi during the period from March 12 – March 20, 2013. The release rate of 137-Cs was refined to r…

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Empowering victims of the Fukushima Frenzy to resist radiation FUD

ByRod Adams

…nt of psychosomatic illness, psychiatric disorders and suicide (Husband of Fukushima suicide victim demands justice). And, as only humans can do, people tend to stigmatize those hailing from the affected areas, making relocation even more punishing socially and physically. The miniscule risks outlined by all these studies do not justify the continued harm and devastation perpetrated upon the Fukushima refugees. Except for the small, highly contami…

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Fukushima media visit – USA Today slants positive news into source of worry

ByRod Adams

…ou were not careful but as demonstrated by the actual exposure, workers at Fukushima were careful even under extreme conditions. Daniel Let’s not forget that the results of the nuclear referendum in Italy right after Fukushima was also to spite then acting and sexual scandals ridden PM Silvio Berlusconi … Brian Mays Here’s another rough calculation: World potato production in 2007: 325.30 million tonnes Specific activity due to K-40 in a potato:…

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