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Update On Fukushima

Workers Flee As Smoke Rises From Two Reactors

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake

 

Levels Of Radiation Rapidly Rising Near Ibaraki Prefecture, Closest Area To Fukashima That Isn't Under Survey

http://www.prisonplanet.com/levels-of-radiation-rapidly-rising-near-ibaraki-prefecture-closest-area-to-fukushima-that-isn%e2%80%99t-under-survey.html

 

Pounding Rain Fuels Radiation Fears In Japan

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.febc4d34e598ccf0cd23682a357dc69f.2d1&show_article=1

 

Asahi Shinbun Confirms Nuclear Rods In Pressure Vessels And Spent Fuel Pools Are Damaged

http://www.prisonplanet.com/asahi-shinbun-confirms-nuclear-rods-in-pressure-vessels-and-spent-fuel-pools-are-damaged.html

 

Nuclear Plant Staff Evacuated After Smoke Rises From Nuclear Reactor

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1368357/Japan-tsunami-Staff-evacuated-smoke-rises-nuclear-reactor.html

 

Cancer Fear As Radiation Gets In Tokyo's Tap Water

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367801/Japan-nuclear-crisis-Cancer-fear-radiation-gets-Tokyos-tap-water.html

 

Some Progress At Fukushima On Reactors 5 and 6

http://www.naturalnews.com/031770_Fukushima_explosion.html

 

 

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake_nuclear_crisis

"The U.N. nuclear agency said a state of emergency was also declared Sunday at another complex, the Onagawa power plant, after higher-than-permitted levels of radiation were measured there. It said Japan informed it that all three of those reactors there were under control.

"Four nuclear complexes in northeastern Japan have reported some damage from the quake or the tsunami."

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/20/japanese-official-pressure-levels-rising-reactor-damaged-nuclear-plant/

"Bringing the two units under control marks a minor advance in the efforts to stop the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex from leaking radiation. The two units are the least problematic of the six reactor units at the plant, which began overheating after the earthquake-triggered tsunami disrupted the plant's cooling systems.

The news comes amid an unexpected rise in pressure inside reactor No. 3, setting back efforts to bring Japan's overheating, leaking nuclear complex under control Sunday as concerns grew that as-yet minor contamination of food and water is spreading.

The pressure increase meant plant operators may need to deliberately release radioactive steam, prolonging a nuclear crisis ....

 

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Earthquake Safety

The following information is taken from: www.fema.gov/hazard/earthquake/index.shtm:
Before The Earthquake Strikes
  • Pick "safe places" in each room of your home. A safe place could be under a sturdy table or desk or against an interior wall away from windows, bookcases, or tall furniture that could fall on you. The shorter the distance to move to safety, the less likely you will be injured. Injury statistics show that people moving as little as 10 feet during an earthquake's shaking are most likely to be injured. Also pick safe places, in your office, school and other buildings you are frequently in. 
  • Practice drop, cover, and hold-on in each safe place. Drop under a sturdy desk or table and hold on to one leg of the table or desk. Protect your eyes by keeping your head down. Practice these actions so that they become an automatic response. When an earthquake or other disaster occurs, many people hesitate, trying to remember what they are supposed to do. Responding quickly and automatically may help protect you from injury.
  • Practice drop, cover, and hold-on at least twice a year. Frequent practice will help reinforce safe behavior.
  • Wait in your safe place until the shaking stops, and then check to see if you are hurt. You will be better able to help others if you take care of yourself first, then check the people around you. Move carefully and watch out
    for things that have fallen or broken, creating hazards. Be ready for additional earthquakes called aftershocks.
  • Be on the lookout for fires. Fire is the most common earthquake-related hazard, due to broken gas lines, damaged electrical lines or appliances, and previously contained fires or sparks being released.
  • If you must leave a building after the shaking stops, use the stairs, not the elevator. Earthquakes can cause fire alarms and fire sprinklers to go off.
  • You will not be certain whether there is a real threat of fire. As a precaution, use the stairs.
  • If you're outside in an earthquake, stay outside. Move away from buildings, trees, streetlights, and power lines. Crouch down and cover your head. Many injuries occur within 10 feet of the entrance to buildings. Bricks, roofing, and other materials can fall from buildings, injuring persons nearby. Trees, streetlights, and power lines may also fall, causing damage or injury.  [Consider sitting or lying on the ground to avoid a broken ankle or wrist if you should fall while crouching (especially if you are older and your bones are more fragile.]
  • Inform guests, babysitters, and caregivers of your plan. Everyone in your home should know what to do if an earthquake occurs. Assure yourself that others will respond properly even if you are not at home during the earthquake.
  • Get training. Take a first aid class from your local Red Cross chapter. Get training on how to use a fire extinguisher from your local fire department. Keep your training current. Training will help you to keep calm and
    know what to do when an earthquake occurs.
  • Discuss earthquakes with your family. Everyone should know what to do in case all family members are not together. Discussing earthquakes ahead of time helps reduce fear and anxiety and lets everyone know how to respond.
  • Talk with your insurance agent. Different areas have different requirements for earthquake protection. Study locations of active faults, and if you are at risk, consider purchasing earthquake insurance.
  • If you are near a coastline, as soon as it is safe to do so, head for higher ground QUICKLY.  This is also true for any large body of water.  History shows those near the Mississippi River during the New Madrid earthquake of 1811-1812 saw a large devastating wave come up from the river.

There is also earthquake safety information called the Triangle of Life that went viral through email a while back.  There is disagreement whether this information is correct.  Read the comments about it at http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/triangle.asp and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_Life.  Then read Doug Copp's story in the link right below this one.  You have to decide, but Mr. Copp does present a strong argument for the typical corporate corruption routine, as to why his method is being black-balled.

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"This is the reason potassium iodide pills and geiger counters have sold out and it goes to the heart of the whole Fukushima catastrophe. Governments worldwide have proven themselves completely deceptive and untrustworthy, which is why no one believes their assurances about “harmless” radiation, and have taken steps to prepare themselves for the worst case scenario.

“A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday,” reports the New York Times. [and radiation levels will be minimal.]

"The same people telling us that the levels are miniscule and the radiation “harmless,” are from the same organizations who assured us that the Chernobyl disaster only killed 9,000 people, when in reality it exposed 550 million Europeans, and 150 to 230 million others in the Northern Hemisphere to notable contamination and led to nearly a million deaths.

"Assurances that the majority of the radiation plume will disperse over the Pacific Ocean are also glib, given how the Chernobyl radiation cloud smothered most of the northern hemisphere within a week. Remember, experts are calling this crisis “Chernobyl on steroids,” if the worst comes to the worst the radiation cloud could affect the entire globe.

“Nearly one million people around the world died from exposure to radiation released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor.”

And the unfolding Japanese drama is called "Chernobyl on Steroids!"

Minor health consequences????????
10957969886?profile=originalhttp://www.prisonplanet.com/u-s-government-cannot-be-trusted-on-radiation-plume.html
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"Kyodo News reported on Wednesday that Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has observed mysterious neutron beams coming from the plant 13 times since the initial earthquake and tsunami. These neutron beams, which reportedly measure
roughly one mile, may be evidence that uranium and plutonium have already been released from the plant's damaged reactors and fuel rods as spent nuclear fuels allegedly release such beams through nuclear fission. Officials have been
observing these beams since March 13 and are just now disclosing this important information on March 23 (http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/20...).
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Breach In Reactor Suspected At Japanese Nuclear Plant

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_earthquake

 

Reactor Core May Be Breached At Damaged Fukushima Plant

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-22/nuclear-plant-s-fuel-rods-damaged-leaking-into-sea-tokyo-electric-says.html

 

Japan Raises Possibility of Breach In Reactor Vessel

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/world/asia/26japan.html?_r=1

 

Japanese Authorities Admit Deadly MOX Plutonium Reactor Is Leaking

http://www.prisonplanet.com/japanese-authorities-admit-deadly-mox-plutonium-reactor-is-leaking.html

"Reactor number 3 runs  on MOX or Mixed Oxide fuel, a mixture of plutonium and uranium. Plutonium is  the most deadly radioactive isotope known to man, and MOX is two million times  more deadly than normal enriched uranium. The Half-life of Plutonium-239 in MOX  is 24,000 years and just a few milligrams of P-239 escaping in a smoke plume  will contaminate soil for tens of thousands of years"

 

 

 

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http://in.news.yahoo.com/japan-quake-shifted-earth-4-inches-axis-20110312-015534-038.html

 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth/index.html

"The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis.

"At this point, we know that one GPS station moved (8 feet), and we have seen a map from GSI (Geospatial Information Authority) in Japan showing the pattern of shift over a large area is consistent with about that much shift of the land mass," said Kenneth Hudnut, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

"Reports from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy estimated the 8.9-magnitude quake shifted the planet on its axis by nearly 4 inches (10 centimeters).

"The temblor, which struck Friday afternoon near the east coast of Japan, killed hundreds of people, caused the formation of 30-foot walls of water that swept across rice fields, engulfed entire towns, dragged houses onto highways, and tossed cars and boats like toys. Some waves reached six miles (10 kilometers) inland in Miyagi Prefecture on Japan's east coast.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth/index.html

"The quake triggered more than 160 aftershocks in the first 24 hours - 141 measuring 5.0-magnitude or more.

The quake occurred as the Earth's crust ruptured along an area about 250 miles (400 kilometers) long by 100 miles (160 kilometers) wide, as tectonic plates slipped more than 18 meters, said Shengzao Chen, a USGS geophysicist."

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/03/14/2011-03-14_17_us_navy_crewmembers_exposed_to_low_level_radiation_in_japan.html

Low-level contamination, remedied with soap and water, and discarding the clothing.  However,

 

"The U.S. 7th Fleet, positioned about 100 miles northeast of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to deliver aid to Japan's coastal region, moved its ships further away due to "airborne radioactivity" and contamination found on its planes."

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http://www.prisonplanet.com/pentagon-cover-up-of-data-on-fukushima-disaster.html

"More PR spin. The Pentagon moved to gauge the threat well before any supposed request by the Japanese government. It deployed its sophisticated technology – and that of the NRC and the NNSA (the National Nuclear Security Administration) – to size up the threat early on. The Pentagon acts on its own. It does not wait for requests from government, including our own Congress.

In the United States, the EPA has a vast array of radiation detection stations. In California alone, there are twelve stations measuring air particulates, real-time gamma, and the contamination of milk and drinking water. It remains to be seen if the EPA will share this data with the American people."

Recall the EPA dispensing misleading information following the false flag attacks of September 11, 2001, telling New Yorkers it was safe to breathe the air when reliable information on air quality was not available.

The Pentagon and the government know full well the extent of this unprecedented disaster — and it is far worse then they are telling us. They are not about to level with the American people, who will find out later this week and in the weeks ahead how severe and life threatening the situation is.

As we reported over the weekend, the CIA’s USAID was dispatched to micromanage the release and spin of information on the disaster. Yoichi Shimatsu, the former editor of the Japan Times Weekly, told CCTV a large scale cover-up is unfolding.

“The CIA, through USAID, is running a disinfo campaign on Japan’s earthquake crippled nuclear facilities for geopolitical reasons. The Japanese people will ultimately suffer, as will millions of other people who happen to be downwind from the stricken plants,” we wrote at the time.

A video of Mr. Shimatsu’s interview was predictably memory holed at YouTube, the video site owned by CIA asset Google.

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More On The Japanese Nuclear Crisis

Japan Battles Nuclear Meltdown

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e6600348-4dbb-11e0-85e4-00144feab49a.html#axzz1GX8M0Dcf

 

Japan Races To Avert Multiple Nuclear Meltdowns

http://news.ino.com/headlines/?newsid=6897685677472710

 

Japan Says Second Blast Possible At Plant; Radiation Falls

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-13/japan-says-second-blast-possible-at-plant-radiation-falls.html

 

US West Coast In Path Of Fallout

http://www.prisonplanet.com/if-there-were-a-reactor-meltdown-or-major-leak-at-fukushima-the-radioactive-cloud-would-likely-be-blown-out-towards-the-us-west-coast.html

 

 

 

 

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