Saturday, April 9, 2011
Journalist Drives Through Fukushima Evacuation Zone (Video)
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Labels: environmental disaster
Friday, April 8, 2011
US unprepared for Japan-style nuke accident: lawmaker
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France detects radioactive iodine in rainwater, milk
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Seattle King5 and MyNorthWest.com Covers Simulation Showing Radiation On West Coast
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Labels: environmental disaster, Health News, The Intel Hub
America and EU Agree: Raise Radiation Levels for Food
Activist Post
On March 28, 2011, I wrote an article entitled EPA to Help Mainstream Media Obscure The Truth About Radiation Exposure to Americans, in which I discussed the changes to the PAGs (Protective Action Guides) being proposed by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) that would raise the acceptable levels of radiation allowed in the environment, food, and even the general public themselves in the event of a nuclear emergency.
Interestingly enough, an article was published on April 3, 2011, by Alexander Higgins citing Kopp Online and Xander News, stating that a similar rule change was occurring in the European Union.
PAGs are policies and guidelines established by the EPA that guide the agency’s response in the event of a radioactive emergency. Specifically, PAGs deal with how the EPA should enforce laws such as the Clean Air and Water Act in relation to the disaster. Although PAGs had already been established by the EPA in 1992, the agency now plans to amend these guidelines to much higher levels of acceptable radiation.
No congressional approval is legally needed to makes such changes, because the EPA is a regulatory agency that sets “policy” and, although these types of agencies can be directed by congress or the president, they often form their own policies. All that is required when agencies such as the EPA wish to change their policy is that they first publish the proposed changes in the Federal Register for a designated period of “public comment.”
However, since public opinion is worth virtually nothing, once a proposed change is published in the Federal Register, it is well on its way to becoming new policy. This is unfortunate considering the fact that, according to PEER(Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the new standards would result in a “nearly 1000-fold increase for exposure to strontium-90, a 3000 to 100,000-fold hike for exposure to iodine-131; and an almost 25,000 rise for exposure to radioactive nickel-63” in drinking water.
Which brings us to the new EU mirror of EPA policy. Actually set as far back as 1989 (by amending standards set in 1987) for the purpose of responding to a nuclear or radiological emergency, the EU ordinance 297/2011 was implemented on March 25, 2011, which finally enacted the standards that were set back in 1989.
EU ordinance 297/2011 raises the Maximum Levels of radiation and radioactive isotopes for food and feed to rather serious levels. In some cases, such as the case of Cesium-134 and Cesium-137, the levels are actually twice the amount of previously acceptable levels. Many of these increases are allowed in products such as infant formula and baby foods.
It should be noted that the new EU changes only apply to food imported from Japan. The justification behind this is that in the event of a nuclear emergency the traditional levels of acceptable radiation should be ignored so as not to cause a food shortage as a result of legal constraints.
However, in this context, making such changes is a completely ridiculous decision. Although it is true that the radiation cloud from Fukushima has almost spread across the entire globe, food imported from Japan itself only makes up a small percentage of the EU food supply. As Thilo Bode and Christina Hacker stated, “These rules now to bring into force is absurd, because in Europe there are no nuclear emergency, and certainly no shortage of food.”[sic] Indeed, it seems the best course of action would be to ban imports of Japanese food or, at the very least, to ban the importation of contaminated Japanese food.
Nevertheless, it all seems a bit too coincidental that both the American EPA and the European Union EC have decided to change their standards at the same time. It is almost enough to make one wonder if there is not a hidden agenda at work amidst this ordeal. Could it be that there is a coordinated effort to increase the levels of radiation the public is subjected to, while at the same time reduce the amount of alarm being expressed (to the extent that it is) over the potential health concerns?
Only time will tell whether or not there is an ulterior motive in regards to the new changes implemented by the EU and those proposed by the EPA. However, it is always good practice to assume that when you see different countries implementing the same policies at the same time, there is much more to the story than meets the eye.
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Labels: environmental disaster, EPA, EU, FOOD SAFETY
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
'No Safe Levels' of Radiation in Japan
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IPS News
TOKYO, Apr 4, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) - In a nuclear crisis that is becoming increasingly serious, Japan’s Nuclear Safety Agency confirmed that radioactive iodine-131 in seawater samples taken near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex that was seriously damaged by the recent tsunami off the coast of Japan is 4,385 times the level permitted by law.
Airborne radiation near the plant has been measured at 4-times government limits.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, the company that operates the crippled plant, has begun releasing more than 11,000 tons of radioactive water that was used to cool the fuel rods into the ocean while it attempts to find the source of radioactive leaks. The water being released is about 100 times more radioactive than legal limits.
Meanwhile, water that is vastly more radioactive continues to gush into the ocean through a large crack in a six-foot deep pit at the nuclear plant. Over the weekend, workers at the plant used sawdust, shredded newspaper and diaper chemicals in a desperate attempt to plug the area, which failed. Water leaking from the pit is about 10,000 times more radioactive than water normally found at a nuclear plant
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EPA to raise limits for radiation exposure while Canada turns off fallout detectors
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Labels: environmental disaster, global meltdown, ground water contamination, huge radiation levels, NATURAL NEWS, NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST, public water ways contaminated
Monday, April 4, 2011
Fukushima: End of Week Three
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Labels: environmental disaster, Health News, Mark Sircus
Rainwater in California Measured 181 Times The Acceptable Limit For Drinking Water
The Intel Hub
Officials at UC Berkeley have tested rain water that turned out to be 181 times the limit for drinking water. This is happening at the same time that our FAKE corporate media is telling the sheeple that there is absolutely nothing to worry about.
“As shown in the graph below, published by UC Berkeley, Iodine-131 peaked at 20.1 becquerels per liter, a measure of radioactivity, on the roof of Etcheverry Hall during heavy rains a week ago. The federal maximum level of iodine-131 allowed in drinking water is 0.111 becquerels per liter,” The Bay Citizen reported Saturday.
The Norwegian Institute of Air Research is also predicting that moderate levels of radiation will hit the U.S. west coast on April 5th and 6th.
Meanwhile in Japan, 250 people protested TEPCO’s criminal cover up of one of the largest nuclear disasters in history.
Demonstrators included longtime anti-nuclear activists, rappers, drummers, a guitarist and a female impersonator holding aloft a sign telling Japan’s government, “Shame on you.” They marched from TEPCO’s headquarters to the building that houses Japan’s Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Industry, about four blocks away, reported CNN.
It is clear that the Japanese government and in turn the American government have continually lied about the situation and cannot be trusted whatsoever. While a deadly radioactive cloud sweeping through the U.S. remains highly unlikely, the long term effects of this disaster could be horrific.
NY Times Contributer Confirms High CA Rainwater Radiation – But Lies About Tap Water Radiation
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Radiation Support for Your Immune System; Plant indoors this year
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The Nuclear Nightmare (Video)
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Potential April 6th Fukushima Fallout Forecast Shows U.S. West Coast Under Threat
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Labels: environmental disaster, The Intel Hub
Sunday, April 3, 2011
A 100-year battle awaits Fukushima while suicide workers are needed to keep up the rescue efforts
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Labels: environmental disaster, global meltdown, huge radiation levels, natural disasters, NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST

