Updated (squared)- Fukushima Update: It’s a whole new ballgame.

Uncategorized

I have to add this embed of  the entire forum, as carried on the Fairewinds.org website.  It was a very compelling event that should not be missed.

Lessons from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: A Panel Discussion from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo.

And, from the Department of Duh! this updated update:  

More than two and one half years after the onset of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, current Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is finally admitting that the situation is beyond the island nation’s control and asking for international intervention.  

After all that has transpired in the unfolding disaster, you well might ask what finally mobilized this belated appeal?

Over the weekend, human error caused another halt of cooling water injected into the destroyed Unit 1 reactor and knocked out systems designed to decontaminate radioactive gases in Unit 1 and Unit 2… Officials have acknowledged that the ground water has been contaminated with radioactive leaks which been leaking into the Pacific since soon after meltdowns following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

For the benefit of those of us who can’t make it to Wednesday morning’s four hour (9:45 AM – 1:30 PM) forum at the Gardner Auditorium (Massachusetts State House) in Boston on the future of nuclear energy,  I am posting the link that has been provided for a live web cast of the event.

This will be a unique opportunity for the public to hear from and engage directly with some key figures of the post-Fukushima nuclear world.  On the program are former NRC Chair Gregory Jackzo, former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford, former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, and Arne Gundersen of Vermont’s own Fairewinds Associates.

As devastation from Fukushima continues to unfold in slow-motion, new perspectives on the impacts of radiation, inadequate engineering, failed containment and waste storage are coming at us every day, in anything but slow motion.

Failure to apprehend the message could cost us our planet.

It’s too much information without a guide; and it has everything to do with making our future both safe and energy secure.

You won’t want to miss this web cast and may find yourself referring to it frequently in the future.

About Sue Prent

Artist/Writer/Activist living in St. Albans, Vermont with my husband since 1983. I was born in Chicago; moved to Montreal in 1969; lived there and in Berlin, W. Germany until we finally settled in St. Albans.

30 thoughts on “Updated (squared)- Fukushima Update: It’s a whole new ballgame.”

  1. For including the link. Once again there are more frequent msm news items re Fukushima so we can bet it’s really bad.

    Getting in on this early before I forget or become mired in more “stuff”.

    Arnie is going to be aired on Coast to coast am tomorrow 12-5am I think but don’t know if it’s the entire broadcast & it’s not on their website so perhaps a mistake.

  3. This one is tomorrow in New York:

    New York – The Fukushima Nuclear Accident:…

    Conferences Event ·  Less event details

    Date Tue Oct 8, 2013 9:00am EDT – Tue Oct 8, 2013 1:00pm EDT

    About

    A panel of speakers that includes the former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Dr. Gregory Jaczko; former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford; and nuclear engineer, Arnie Gundersen, is scheduled to share their perspectives on nuclear safety and the future of nuclear power. The panel will specifically address concerns regarding Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant now operating with an expired license in Buchanan, New York. The seminar will be held in New York City on Tuesday, Oct. 8. More speakers will be announced.

    Links

    Live webstream http://livestream.com/fukushim…

    This one is Wednesday:

    Boston – The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Acc…

    Conferences Event ·  Less event details

    Date

    Wed Oct 9, 2013 10:00am EDT – Wed Oct 9, 2013 2:00pm EDT

    About

    Former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission joins panel to discuss the risks of nuclear power at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station and the lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

  4. You published this story ten short days ago:

    TEPCO continues to fail at Fukushima

    by: Sue Prent

    http://www.greenmountaindaily….

    After a little research links were discovered which included news that the situation continues to grow more dire by the day not including the quickly mushrooming side issues & stories of immense human suffering & tragedy which were provided to that diary.

    The stories we are hearing are the ones which manage to be leaked out of their tightly controlled news dump amidst a news blackout. Consequently my direometer is now fried since I have found even more credible reports from a variety of blogs & news from Japanese bloggers which show much more dire.

    Since your update to this story & the plea from Japans PM, it is my hope that the suffering of the Japanese ppl will be alleviated through the expertise of the world nuclear experts & activists who are able to get in a huddle & on the same page. I’m hoping their feet will be held to the fire & control will be relinquished to the expertise of the “true” experts as outlined by the demands to UN secretary by the signatories of this letter,

    http://www.nirs.org/fukushima/…

    not the dishonest nuclear community who continue to falsely claim “no one has ever been killed” due to a nuclear disaster & no one has died from Fukushima when ppl have been & are dying daily from the effects of acute radiation poisoning around Fukushima & perhaps beyond.

    It may be too little too late:

    The Japanese basically lied about what happened with the reactors for months. They said they were trying to prevent a meltdown, when in fact they knew within the first couple of days Reactors 1, 2, and 3 at Fukushima Daiichi had melted down, and they actually melted through the steel containment vessels.

    So there was a worst case scenario that they were trying to hide, they even knew that at that time enormous amounts of radiation were released over Japan and some of it even went over Tokyo […]

    The melted core cracked the containment vessel, there really is no containment. So as soon as they pump the water in it leaks out again.

    http://www.washingtonsblog.com…

    After mis-managing for over 2 1/2 years & so thouroughly f’king everything up to the point of this becoming a disaster of epic proportions, with the ground water completely contaminated & soaked to the point of reactor buildings along with the 1300+ fuel assemblies now sinking as the ground is slowly giving way from sheer saturation, they are just now coming forward.

    Arnie said in one of his older reports that if Unit #4 collapses not only would Japan would have to be evacuated (to where???), the entire northern hemisphere is in danger of becoming contaminated & poisoned. Meaning that to survive anyone in NH should head south to SH.

    This may be so, but my practical side says it’s not going to happen. Curtains? On my knees…

  5. All emphasis added:

    Medical experts say U.N. downplaying health effects of Fukushima disaster – “A lot of people experienced acute radiation illness… bleeding noses, hair loss, nausea, diarrhoea [sic]”

    http://enenews.com/medical-exp…


    In May, UNSCEAR stated that radiation exposure following the 2011 Fukushima-Daichii nuclear disaster in Japan poses “no immediate health risks” and that long-term health risks are “unlikely”.

    Asked why UNSCEAR and WHO released such statements if they were medically inaccurate, Caldicott referred to a 1959 WHO-IAEA agreement that gives the IAEA an organisation that promotes nuclear power oversight when researching nuclear accidents.

    http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06…

    So let us examine this rather preposterous claim, that low dose radiation causes no harm, and that there are ZERO casualties from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The pro nuclear apologists keep comparing eating bananas or flying in an airplane to the human produced radiation contaminants that have never been seen before on Earth, so let’s take a closer look at the hazards of low dose radiation[..]

    http://agreenroad.blogspot.com…

    Low Dose Radiation Dangers/Symptoms For Children And Adults

    http://agreenroad.blogspot.com…

    You will no doubt notice that the symptoms of low dose radiation poisoning match what is being reported by people around Fukushima; bleeding noses, hair loss, nausea, flu like symptoms, exhaustion, diarrhea, plus more.

    Again, ANY AND ALL workers who die while they are employed as subcontractors or even as direct employees or supervisors at TEPCO and are killed while trying to clean up radiation or deal with the accident are NEVER counted as being caused by radiation, NEVER. Even when the manager has a radiation caused death from throat cancer, he is not counted either.

    Fukushima workers have been and still are exposed to Cesium. These workers then have negative health effects, including strokes, heart attacks or other problems. Cesium is a known heart seeking and negative health affecting radioactive contaminant, even at low body burden levels of 10-50 Bq/kg, but when the heart attacks and strokes happen, they are NEVER reported as casualties of radiation, even if they are nuclear workers working inside a highly radioactive environment.

    Fukushima Daiichi worker dies from heart attack – Tepco questioned over fatality rate at plant – Not caused by radiation “because he died of a heart attack” August 23, 2012

    Workers are fired once they have heatstroke -Fukushima Daiichi Worker August 3, 2012

    Isn’t it strange how the pro nuclear apologists keep on claiming that no one died due to radiation at the Fukushima plant, but the Fukushima contract workers are dropping like flies trapped indoors, from what anyone with even a shred of common sense can see is radiation damage?

    Link for above:

    http://agreenroad.blogspot.ro/…

    Lessons learned?

    For any and all of the above, the ‘experts’ always repeat the same mantra; that this radioactive plant or product does ‘no harm’, even if it blows up, melts down, catches on fire and/or leaks 1,200 different types of deadly radioactive products, gases and hot particles into the heart of cities such as Tokyo, with over 30 million inhabitants.

    http://agreenroad.blogspot.ro/…

    Acute leukemia is a direct consequence of radiation exposure and low level radiation contamination. So are all kinds of heart problems, heart attacks and strokes; they are all directly tied to low level radiation contamination. But NONE of the deaths from these and other radiation contamination health issues are being counted as being part of the Fukushima accident. The medical profession is all in with the nuclear industry and the cover up continues on a MASSIVE scale.

  6. Now, this is a book worth reading.  Indian Point melts down before our heroine gets to sabotage it.

  7. …that I believe we’ve ‘mutated’ into assholes already, which explains how stupid we’ve become about the big things that effect us and the planet.  Or maybe it’s not stupidity, but, rather, nuclear malaise. (which causes stupidity)???

    Well…Entergy and the other Nuke ghouls have certainly come up with the solution to carbon footprints–nuclear body outlines.  With plutonium, not chalk.  So’s ya can see ’em in the dark.

  8. to the panel, started somewhat late. It was a bit difficult to follow & understand the former PM through a translator who was first.

    Around noon, suddenly it poofed. I logged out momentarily & put it back up, after a couple of whiles it went to a helicopter  tour someone was giving over IP. Then there was a bit more discussion & it started reverbing to the point I couldn’t understand anything toward the end.

    Ralph Nader was impressive, a class act plus witty & amusing – even Mr. Congeniality.  Wonderful speaker and formidable figure. I guess running for office knocks the goodness out of ppl for a while sometimes.

    Arnie, Greg Jaczko & Peter Bradford were the typically classy act also & made their points very well, all are great speakers & excellent communicators. Alot of experiences shared. Good time had by all.

    I would like to watch or see the transcrpt, maybe an open thread about what others who tuned in have to say also. Right now I’m just tired from staying up so thoughts are kind of flatlined.

  9. to the Boston one. It never happened that I could see (actually I thought I already posted this comment). Around 1030 looked like something was about to happen. But still not a go. At 1130 I took my friend to work, came home & went to bed. Around 230 it looked like the former Japanese PM was speaking.  

Comments are closed.