A plea from Fukushima-let's HELP THEM!
This was on Bakrad this morning.
It is a plea from the people of Fukushima to help them! They are hoping that a worldwide appeal will encourage many of us to pressure the Japanese government to evacuate them to a safer place.
I am sort of in the techno-idiot group. So, I am not sure how to make this go viral and, ideally, try to get this on CNN and other places that would publicly shame the Japanese government. However, I know that the tech savvy, concerned group that we have here CAN help.
All of us on here (and I have been on here daily from the beginning), are extremely concerned for the safety of our families here in North America (seems that most of us on here are from the US). So, I am sure that you join me in DEEPLY sympathizing with these poor souls left behind, and pretty much abandoned, by their indifferent/callous/corrupt/incompetent (pick your favorite adjective) government.
These people KNOW that their government has been lying to them. But, they and their children are trapped in the high radiation area. Clearly, these are not people with means who can just pick up and leave.
They are BEGGING us to help them and their children. Let's all do what we can to help them!
Also, can someone who is uTube savvy let them know that we have posted here, and pass along this link to them? I assume that they will be checking the comments section of their video (I am so sorry that I am just not computer literate and my child is not home now!)
Let's give them some emotional support and encouragement while trying to get their government to evacuate them to a safer place!
Contamination: substantial, lasting
A substantial and long-lasting contamination
http://www.criirad.org/actualites/dossier2011/japon_bis/sommaire.html
CRIIRAD- 471, Av. Victor Hugo, 26000 Valence - France- + 33 (0)4 75 41 82 50 + 33 (0)4 75 81 26 48
http://www.criirad.org – Email : contact@criirad.org July 7, 2011 Communiqué
Consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident in Japan: A substantial and long-lasting contamination
The CRIIRAD institute went on a mission in Japan from May 24th to June 3rd, 2011. The present document gives account of the findings from the first analysis results. The radioactive cesium deposits on the soils have been of great magnitude. They generate, and will continue to do so for a long time to come, a flux of gamma radiation causing the irradiation of populations in widespread areas. Must be added, the internal exposure (due to ingestion of contaminated foods) and doses received since March 12th that were extremely elevated during the first week from the level of contamination and the lack of protective measures.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5R1j13zdas
(Ernest) “Hemingway's novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" was essentially a cry to humanity that the war against fascism in the 30's in Spain required the whole of humanity to rise and support the Spanish republic. The world ignored this warning of this struggle and the descent into World War II was the result. Hemingway's cry was in close conformance with (Poet John) Donne's.
http://www.englishforums.com/English/ForWhomTheBellTolls/4/dpvb/Post.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rS5GALvQ0Q
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the Spanish Civil War.
Gary Cooper plays Robert Jordan, an idealistic American fighting with a Spanish guerilla band. He is assigned to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress. He falls in love with Maria (Ingrid Bergman), a young peasant girl who's joined the fight after being ill-used by enemy troops. Pablo (Akim Tamiroff), the eternally drunken leader of the guerillas, resents Jordan's attentions toward Maria, and he refuses to help Jordan in his sabotage work. Pablo's wife Pilar (Oscar-winner Katina Paxinou) takes over command of the guerillas and helps Jordan by arranging horses for the band's departure after their job is done. The man supplying the horses (Joseph Calleia) is killed, and Jordan is left to finish his task minus a means to escape. For Whom the Bell Tolls was a long, faithful adaptation of the Hemingway novel, with excellent performances, torrid love scenes, and first-rate Technicolor photography.
http://www.answers.com/topic/for-whom-the-bell-tolls-film
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 film in Technicolor based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou. This was Ingrid Bergman's first technicolor film. Hemingway handpicked Cooper and Bergman for their roles. The film was adapted for the screen by Dudley Nichols and was directed by Sam Wood. The film became the top box-office hit of 1943, grossing $11 million. It was also nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning one.
it tolls for thee
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“Ask not for whom the bell tolls,
it tolls for thee.”
http://djryan.tripod.com/inspirations/poems/bell.html
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by John Donne
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
extremists for injustice
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Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?
Martin Luther King's Letter from the Birmingham Jail remains one of the most remarkable and inspirational documents in American literature.
http://abacus.bates.edu/admin/offices/dos/mlk/letter.html
Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Was not Martin Luther an extremist: "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God." And John Bunyan: "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience." And Abraham Lincoln: "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." And Thomas Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ..."
So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified. We must never forget that all three were crucified for the same crime---the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
http://ndn.org/blog/2010/01/kings-letter-birmingham-jail
This is very sad
This is very sad
A fair shake for Fukushima
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What will it take to get a fair shake for Fukushima citizens?
Seven Samurai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFJMXp81DoM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNqQXC8Tv8U
The Magnificent 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPsm_po7lKA
13 months
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By law every Japanese reactor must be brought to 'Cold Shut Down' every 13 months for safety inspections. The national and state governments must approve the restart. This provides the Japanese people an opportunity to win concessions from the nuclear industry, or if they choose to permanently shut down every reactor in the country.
The Fukushima region needs a massive evacuation, health initiative and environmental remediation program. The Japanese nation would be well advised to eliminate the use of MOX (plutonium enriched) fuel. The older reactors need to be down-rated (15%) not uprated.
In my humble opinion, the Japanese people need the electrical power but they also need far greater safety. Certainly, they have the right and the mechanism to shut the entire nuclear industry down. That may not be their best move.
Criminal prosecution of the responsible companies and corporate officers will send a clear message. Reparations from the nuclear construction industry players will send a 2nd clear message. The Japanese people and their nation may be best served by bringing the guilty parties to justice.
It will be most interesting to see (past & present) CEOS 'in the dock'.
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You can start petitions for
You can start petitions for all causes at:
www.change.org
They have a history of very good results...
Namaste
Millisieverts comparison
He mentions the Russian levels of 1 millisievert per year for voluntary evacuation and a 5 millisievert for mandatory evacuations. what are the levels reported in Fukushima city .
The mandatory evacuation
The mandatory evacuation after Chernobyl was set at 100 mSv per year in May for the rest of 1986.
Lifetime relocation limits
"In June 1989, a group of experts from the World Health Organization agreed that an incremental long-term dose of 350 mSv should be the criterion for relocating people affected by the 1986 Chernobyl accident. This was considered a "conservative value which ensured that the risk to health from this exposure was very small compared with other risks over a lifetime". (For comparison, background radiation averages about 100-200 mSv over a lifetime in most places.)"
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf05.html
Note the date, June 1989,
Note the date, June 1989, three years after the accident. And it was studied as a limit but never applied, since they finally used the surface contamination limit of 1,480,000 Bq/m2 for Cesium-137 (555,000 Bq/m2 in the case of pregnant women and kids). But that was in 1990.
Americans in same boat
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American citizens are in the same boat. While the US Center for Disease Control promises help, it is "The Big Lie"(Große Lüge).
http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/stockpile.htm
"•The SNS has stockpiled enough medicine to protect people in several large cities at the same time."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/us_health_care_system_unprepared_...
U.S. health-care system unprepared for major nuclear emergency, officials say
One example: The U.S. Strategic National Stockpile stopped purchasing the best-known agent to counter radioactive iodine-induced thyroid cancer in young people, potassium iodide, about two years ago and designated the limited remaining quantities “excess,” according to information provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ProPublica. Despite this, the CDC Web site still lists potassium iodide as one of only four drugs in the stockpile specifically for use in radiation emergencies.
Status: Condition Red
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The USA has nothing to give Fukushima. If we shipped 100% of our strategic national stockpile counter-radiation drugs to fukushima; it would be an empty box.
If an upstream Missouri River dam had failed last week, at least 2 USA nuclear power plants would have melted down. The American 'downwinders' would have been trapped by floodwaters. No evacuation could have occurred.
There is no plan or system in place to warn Americans. There is no evacuation planned or possible. There is no nuclear decontamination equipment at hospitals. There are no radiation drugs to distribute. There is no zeolite water filtration system in the USA.
America is a 'sitting duck' for any nuclear emergency. The use of MOX fuel has more than doubled the likelihood of reactor meltdowns in the USA because of control issues. MOX power uprates have more than doubled the likelihood of containment failure. The 20 year life extensions for corroded, ancient plants has more than doubled the likelihood of multiple reactor core meltdowns. The added plutonium in MOX fuel has more than doubled the health consequences of a reactor failure.
Worse, every page of the USA national nuclear disaster response plan is a lie. These ongoing lies have prevented the population from making their own preparations for nuclear disaster. You're On Your Own. (YOYO)
Japan - YOYO MOFO
USA - YOYO MOFO
Reuters report June 27
It is one of many self-help citizen groups near the plant in Fukushima, where many areas are exposed to around 13 or more millisieverts of radiation a year, about 6.5 times natural background radiation levels, a city survey showed.
According to the survey, as many as 182 places showed readings close to or above the official annual exposure limit of 20 millisieverts per year.
The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends that governments set radiation exposure targets at the lower end of the 1-20 millisievert per year range.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/27/us-japanese-fukushima-radiatio...
Wow I would be beyond upset if I lived here as well.
I'm frothing at the mouth
I'm frothing at the mouth over the industry's daily antics being a downwinder in Canada, so I can only imagine.