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Perhaps more disturbing: Nobody knows exactly how the Iodine-131 – which can cause thyroid cancer if consumed in large quantities or over a prolonged period of time – is getting into Philly’s drinking water.
“At this point, that is not really known,” said EPA spokesman David Sternberg. “We’re investigating.”
Kathryn Higley, a health physicist at Oregon State University, said the most likely source is a nearby or upstream medical facility that treats cancer patients with Iodine-131, which can enter the water supply when patients go to the bathroom.
Nordic wrote:Sorry, SLAD, the 2nd one is laughable. There's nothing there, just explosion stuff floating back toward the ground.
The first one you posted, though, is very odd. Can't imagine what that thing is.
And if the UFO's prevented a nuclear disaster, they sure didn't do a very good job!!
I'm sure programs like CERN and others might have some sort of odd effect on the planet, but I am personally not sold on the HAARP theory regarding earthquakes and tend to think it's more to do with something that's been building up(which of course it's easy to slide that thinking into the 2012 framing)
eyeno wrote:I'm sure programs like CERN and others might have some sort of odd effect on the planet, but I am personally not sold on the HAARP theory regarding earthquakes and tend to think it's more to do with something that's been building up(which of course it's easy to slide that thinking into the 2012 framing)
I am not totally sold on it either. After giving it another look though and understanding what this system is capable of I don't doubt for a second that it would be used to make a nation submit. So far I have actually been more on the galactic alignment stress position theories but I don't doubt for a second there are people that would use haarp to give it a kick and make it worse if it would serve their purposes. After all, look at the middle east, it is a damn mess, so obviously these people don't give a damn. I am also wondering if there might be tie in for haarp/oil exploration that could be dangerous for earth. With New Madrid I am also looking into the theory of gulf drilling, fracking, and the potential for that to be the reason for some of the new mad preparations made by fema.
lupercal wrote:Globalists Positioned to Exploit Japan's Tragedy
April 14, 2011 - By Tony Cartalucci - BLN Contributing Writer
(snip)
Adding Insult to Injury
While the globocrats myopically obsessed over exploiting a contrived crisis in Libya, there were smatterings of interest gravitating not around how to mitigate the ongoing disaster in Fukushima, but rather how Japan should rebuild - expressed amongst the pages of the corporate-funded think-tank reports.
One such report by Brookings Institute's Robert Pozen titled, "Japan Can Rebuild on New Economic Foundations" includes calls for Japan to throw its borders open, allowing immigrants to solve their aging population dilemma, reforming its political system to undermine spending in rural Japan, and of course, stimulating economic growth with advances in computer technology, drug discovery, and "financial innovation." Financial innovation is of course creating and marketing new forms of securities (i.e. derivatives.)
The Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR) Foreign Affairs magazine article "Tokyo's Turning Point" sees the disaster as an opportunity for Japan to abandon protectionism and embrace the "free-trade" travesty that is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is yet another bid to further mire nations in the disastrous interdependency that is dragging economies from the US and across Europe into a speculative debt black-hole brought on by international bankers.
The article continues by suggesting future military reforms resulting from March 11 should include removing "anachronistic constraints" on JSDF rules of engagement, interoperability with U.S. forces, and participation in international defense industrial collaboration. It also suggests that faith in nuclear power having been shaken, Japan's dependency on foreign oil will increase, breathing new life into America's mandate to maintain the security of sea-lanes from Japan's coast all the way to the Middle East (China's "String of Pearls.")
Patrick Cronin of the corporate lined Center for a New American Security (CNAS) concurs point-for-point, in his article "Japan’s New Deal Opportunity." He also calls for the full integration of Japan's military into a"NATO-style military interoperability for a range of missions, perhaps starting with humanitarian assistance and disaster relief." Such "interoperability" and the range of missions Mr. Cronin would like to see Japan take part in as they get back onto their feet, would undoubtedly be greatly beneficial to the military industrial complex that funds his CNAS think-tank.
Some corporate, foundation, and government supporters of CNAS include AT&T, BAE Systems (UK), Bechtel, BGR, Chertoff Group, Chevron, DynCorp, General Dynamics, General Electric Aviation, Google, Honeywell International, KBR, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Blackstone Group, Boeing, Rockefeller Foundation, Tides Foundation, US Air Force, US Army, USMC, US Department of Defense, and the US Navy.![]()
The consensus emanating from these unelected, extra-legal steering committees of Western policy represent a singular fixation on the pursuit of world government through financial and military hegemony. It is the lens through which all matters are viewed, including the unprecedented tragedy unfolding in Japan. Such myopic megalomaniacal obsession literally costs people their lives, as the priorities set forth but men driven by such an agenda side step real leadership in any given crisis in favor of shameless exploitation.![]()
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Globalis ... 0/Y/M.html
April 15, 2011 - 7:40 p.m.
Unexplained elevations of radioactivity, Non Fukushima, Cayenne
AFP - A hitherto unexplained elevation of radioactivity was detected Monday by a tag implanted in Cayenne (French Guiana), before returning to normal Tuesday morning, said Friday the Institute of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN).
According IRSN, this increase would have "a local source, not related to the dispersion of radioactive discharges from the plant in Fukushima."
The institute investigates the origin of the abnormal increase of ambient dose rate, which began Monday around 9:00 local reach at 15.20 to a maximum of 2.5 microSievert (or 2,500 nanosievert, NSV) per hour.
The main peak of radioactivity occurred between 11:30 and 17:30 local. Early Tuesday, she was returned to its usual level (about 70 nSv / h), specifies the IRSN.
A hitherto unexplained elevation of radioactivity was detected Monday by a tag implanted in Cayenne (French Guiana), before returning to normal Tuesday morning, said Friday the Institute of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN).
A malfunction of the beacon measurement recently installed on the roof of the gendarmerie of Cayenne "is not to exclude" by IRSN who believes that "the elevation of limited duration, can not be caused by radioactive discharges from the nuclear accident in Fukushima.
"Otherwise we would have seen on other tags," noted Didier Champion, director of environment at the IRSN. However, no abnormal elevation of the background radiation was detected by the tags Téléray in Martinique and Guadeloupe, is the IRSN.
Among the local sources may explain the transient rise in radioactivity in Cayenne, the accidental incineration of a radioactive source, perhaps a medical, is cited.
"We do not know now the source, whether this is an atmospheric dispersion, we do not know the point of emission, or radioactive materials that made this issue", but it is believed that " source should not be very distant "from the tag, said to AFP said Champion.
It refers to "suspicion" that incineration "went wrong" either in an incinerator or in a steel mill. "But this hypothesis is not proven," said the IRSN.
http://www.france24.com/fr/20110415-ele ... -a-cayenne
Nordic wrote:The first one you posted, though, is very odd. Can't imagine what that thing is.
Gov't to say soon when nuke disaster will conclude: Edano
FUKUSHIMA, Japan, April 17, Kyodo
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Sunday that the government may be able to give an estimate in the next few days of when the nuclear emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant will be concluded.
Edano made the comment during a meeting with Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato at the prefectural office.
Edano also said the government would take responsibility for the livelihoods of people displaced by the nuclear disaster caused by the March 11 mega earthquake and tsunami.
''Ensuring people's livelihoods and security is our priority,'' he told Sato.
Edano earlier in the day arrived in Fukushima Prefecture for the first time since the disaster, on a mission to explain government support policies to administrative leaders there.
He also said the government will do its utmost to prevent farmers from Fukushima suffering financially due to misperceptions among consumers about the effects of the nuclear accident.
Edano, meanwhile, declined to specify when residents of the 20-kilometer evacuation radius around the nuclear plant will be able to return temporarily to collect belongings and inspect their homes.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/85973.html
==Kyodo
Nuclear fuel has melted in three reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and fallen to the lower sections of their container vessels, raising the specter of overheated material compromising a container and causing a massive radiation release, the Atomic Energy Society of Japan said in a report released on Friday…
http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/g ... 5_5020.php
Melted fuel rod fragments have sunk to the bottoms of three reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant and could theoretically burn through the pressure vessels if emergency water-pumping operations are seriously disrupted, the Atomic Energy Society of Japan said Friday.
If too many of the melted fuel fragments puddle at the bottom, they can generate enough concentrated heat to bore a hole in the pressure vessel, which would result in a massive radioactive release to the environment. …
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ ... 416a1.html
Whether the Cleveland area’s drinking water supply includes any traces of iodine-131 is unknown because the national sampling initiative is being led by EPA, according to Craig Mullinax, manager of Cleveland Utilities’ Water Division.
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking the lead to determine the impact of the radiation which will drift to and across the U.S. through time,” Mullinax said late Thursday. “U.S. EPA has apparently taken some samples in our area.” …
“Cleveland Utilities does not sample for iodine-131 isotopes in the drinking water,” Mullinax said. “Current drinking water sampling guidelines from the U.S. EPA and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation do not require water utilities to collect and analyze for this radioactive isotope.” …
As a preventive measure, Mullinax said Cleveland Utilities has contacted the TDEC office in Chattanooga, but pointed out he was advised the state water quality control agency has not been directed by EPA to begin any random drinking water samplings of its own. …
“They (TDEC) have not received any directive from the U.S. EPA to conduct sampling for iodine-131 or to require Cleveland Utilities to sample,” he stressed.
http://www.clevelandbanner.com/view/ful ... efirstleft
In the days after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accident began, GlobalPost turned to Arnold Gundersen for an independent view of whether the reactors might melt down. A 39-year veteran of the nuclear industry, Gundersen has worked as a nuclear plant operator and served as an expert witness on the Three Mile Island accident. He is now chief engineer at Fairwinds Associates.
Back then, Gundersen said that the evidence suggested the accident was worse than authorities were revealing. This week, his assessment was shown to be accurate when Japan upgraded Fukushima to a 7, the worst possible rating for a nuclear accident.
So we contacted Gundersen again to get an update on Fukushima. In the following edited and condensed interview, Gundersen gives his expert view of what might happen, how authorities are handling the accident, and how Fukushima will affect health and the environment.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news ... l?page=0,1
Smoke rose briefly from a control panel at a nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast Saturday, the operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
No one was injured in the 7:45 p.m. incident that occurred during the checking of water purification equipment at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex, the company said, adding it has yet to determine the cause. …
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/85943.html
Levels of radioactivity have risen sharply in seawater near a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, signaling the possibility of new leaks at the facility, the government said Saturday. …
The new rise in radioactivity could have been caused by the installation Friday of steel panels intended to contain radiation that may have temporarily stirred up stagnant waste in the area, Hidehiko Nishiyama of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told reporters. However, the increase in iodine-131, which has a relatively short eight-day half life, could signal the possibility of a new leak, he said. …
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