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Majia here: So the news is that radiation levels are rising and areas of the Daiichi site are now completely off limits for humans and machines with sensitive electronics.
3. The third major event to occur is the shut down of the TBS camera
sometime either late Dec 8 or early December 9 in Japan. The shut-down of the TBS cam is particularly alarming given the significant levels of emissions visible over the last couple of weeks. Emissions have been coupled with very strange and inexplicable light phenomena, all of which I've documented recently in my blog posts.
For example, see a strange light phenomenon here.
Emissions can be clearly seen coming from unit 2 here.
Heavy emissions overall from the plant can be seen here.
What looks like a 'fire' can be seen here, in the exact same location as I've seen cranes deposit what appear to be fuel rods (note that the video has been enhanced. Explanation of enhancement and additional non-enhanced shots can be viewed here.)
The strange and disconcerting events on the TBS cam correlate with spiking radiation levels in the US (see an example here and see Radnet levels here).
4. The fourth major event concerns a de facto increase in permissible exposure levels. Japan is changing the way it monitors air contamination in inhabited zones near the Fukushima Daiichi site. Air monitoring using aircraft is going to be halted. Instead, citizens are going to be provided individual dosimeters. The problem with this substitution is that the dosimeters, according to The Asahi Shimbun, are at least 7 times less sensitive than the helicopter sampling technique. So, essentially, the dosimeters could increase the allowable level of exposure by at least 7 times. These exposure measures do not address internal exposure at all.
Lower radiation readings proposed to speed return of Fukushima evacuees Nov 9, 2013, The Asahi Shimbun,
PEER (2013, April 14) Obama Approves Raising Permissible Levels of Nuclear Radiation in Drinking Water. Civilian Cancer Deaths Expected to Skyrocket:Rollback in Nuclear Radiation Cleanup by Global Research News
Majia here: The powers that be have decided for us that panic is a greater risk than radiation poisoning. That decision is being made in a manner that is not transparent, nor democratic.
5. Mass Adverse Mortality Events constitute the last major event. Many forms of Pacific coast fauna are experiencing huge adverse mortality events.The anomalies are adding up and the die-offs are unprecedented in my lifetime.
October 2013 Interview with James Fetzer about my book,Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk (Palgrave, 2013)
July 23 2013 Voice of Russia http://voicerussia.com/radio_broadcast/70924886/118436060.html
PowerPoint of data examining reports of conditions at the plant and evidence of criticalities, which can be seen here
http://www.academia.edu/4314657/Fukushima_Update_Aug_2013
or here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/11xz1zjgwcsbpo0/Fukushima%20Update%20Aug%202013.pptx
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December, 2013
Over
the last few week five important events have transpired:
1. Japan passed a state secrets law that is so repressive that Japan's ordinarily complacent media have launched a major offensive, as illustrated by this Japan Times editorial:
Government without oversight Dec 6, 2013 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/12/06/editorials/government-without-oversight/#.UqN_vuLlfzM
[Excerpted] People have the right to know what their government is doing. Ensuring this right is the foundation of democracy. The state secrets bill, which the Abe administration Thursday rammed through the Upper House Special Committee on National Security for enactment, undermines this foundation because it blocks citizens’ access to an extremely large amount of government-held information. This also means that lawmakers’ access to important information held by bureaucracy will be blocked.
Citizens and lawmakers should be aware that the bill will greatly change the nature of Japanese politics because it will severely limit the powers of people’s representatives and the Diet itself despite the fact that Article 41 of the Constitution says, “The Diet shall be the highest organ of state power, and shall be the sole lawmaking organ of the State.” Japan’s democracy is now in a deep crisis. [end]
Majia here: Transparency of information and free speech are critical components of democracy that are being assaulted with state secrets legislation. The US previously dis-established free expression and habeas corpus with the Patriot Act and NDAA (e.g., see here.)
1. Japan passed a state secrets law that is so repressive that Japan's ordinarily complacent media have launched a major offensive, as illustrated by this Japan Times editorial:
Government without oversight Dec 6, 2013 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/12/06/editorials/government-without-oversight/#.UqN_vuLlfzM
[Excerpted] People have the right to know what their government is doing. Ensuring this right is the foundation of democracy. The state secrets bill, which the Abe administration Thursday rammed through the Upper House Special Committee on National Security for enactment, undermines this foundation because it blocks citizens’ access to an extremely large amount of government-held information. This also means that lawmakers’ access to important information held by bureaucracy will be blocked.
Citizens and lawmakers should be aware that the bill will greatly change the nature of Japanese politics because it will severely limit the powers of people’s representatives and the Diet itself despite the fact that Article 41 of the Constitution says, “The Diet shall be the highest organ of state power, and shall be the sole lawmaking organ of the State.” Japan’s democracy is now in a deep crisis. [end]
Majia here: Transparency of information and free speech are critical components of democracy that are being assaulted with state secrets legislation. The US previously dis-established free expression and habeas corpus with the Patriot Act and NDAA (e.g., see here.)
2.
The second major event to occur over the last few days is record
atmospheric and ground-water contamination levels reported
at Fukushima Daiichi:
Radiation
36,000 times permissible level found in water at Fukushima plant. The
Mainichi Dec 3,
2013
[TEPCO
said that on] ...Dec. 2 that it has detected radioactive materials
that topped 36,000 times the permissible level in underground water
extracted in the area. According to plant operator Tokyo Electric
Power Co. (TEPCO), strontium-90 and other radioactive substances that
emit beta rays were detected at a level of 1.1 million becquerels per
liter in underground water pumped up from an observatory well on Nov.
28....The amount of detected radioactive materials hit the highest
level since Nov. 25, which marked 910,000 becquerels per liter of
underground water. The national allowable emission level for
strontium-90, a typical radioactive isotope that emits beta rays, is
less than 30 becquerels per liter of water. [end]
"Record
outdoor radiation level detected at Fukushima plant
[Excerpted]
...The reading of 25 sieverts per hour was taken on steel piping near
an exhaust stack for the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors, TEPCO said. The
utility earlier said high radiation levels of at least 10 sieverts
per hour were found on the piping.... A TEPCO official said
radioactive materials derived from melted fuel likely entered the
piping during venting soon after the accident occurred in March 2011
and have remained there. [end]
Majia here: So the news is that radiation levels are rising and areas of the Daiichi site are now completely off limits for humans and machines with sensitive electronics.
3. The third major event to occur is the shut down of the TBS camera
sometime either late Dec 8 or early December 9 in Japan. The shut-down of the TBS cam is particularly alarming given the significant levels of emissions visible over the last couple of weeks. Emissions have been coupled with very strange and inexplicable light phenomena, all of which I've documented recently in my blog posts.
For example, see a strange light phenomenon here.
Emissions can be clearly seen coming from unit 2 here.
Heavy emissions overall from the plant can be seen here.
What looks like a 'fire' can be seen here, in the exact same location as I've seen cranes deposit what appear to be fuel rods (note that the video has been enhanced. Explanation of enhancement and additional non-enhanced shots can be viewed here.)
The strange and disconcerting events on the TBS cam correlate with spiking radiation levels in the US (see an example here and see Radnet levels here).
4. The fourth major event concerns a de facto increase in permissible exposure levels. Japan is changing the way it monitors air contamination in inhabited zones near the Fukushima Daiichi site. Air monitoring using aircraft is going to be halted. Instead, citizens are going to be provided individual dosimeters. The problem with this substitution is that the dosimeters, according to The Asahi Shimbun, are at least 7 times less sensitive than the helicopter sampling technique. So, essentially, the dosimeters could increase the allowable level of exposure by at least 7 times. These exposure measures do not address internal exposure at all.
Lower radiation readings proposed to speed return of Fukushima evacuees Nov 9, 2013, The Asahi Shimbun,
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201311090063
The Nuclear Regulation Authority has drafted a proposal to accelerate the return home of Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees by using radiation readings that tend to be lower than the ones now officially used. The NRA wants residents to take radiation measurements with dosimeters instead of relying on the current government system of determining levels through aircraft monitoring….[end]
Majia here: The US also increased its de facto exposure levels for radionuclides during radiation emergencies. We simply haven't been informed that we are in a radiation emergency, probably because that is conveniently classified a 'national security' concern:
Caldicott, Helen (2013) Obama Approves Raising Permissible Levels of Nuclear Radiation in Drinking Water. Civilian Cancer Deaths Expected to Skyrocket',
Global Research,http://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-approves-raising-permissible-levels-of-nuclear-radiation-in-drinking-water-civilian-cancer-deaths-expected-to-skyrocket/5331224
The Nuclear Regulation Authority has drafted a proposal to accelerate the return home of Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees by using radiation readings that tend to be lower than the ones now officially used. The NRA wants residents to take radiation measurements with dosimeters instead of relying on the current government system of determining levels through aircraft monitoring….[end]
Majia here: The US also increased its de facto exposure levels for radionuclides during radiation emergencies. We simply haven't been informed that we are in a radiation emergency, probably because that is conveniently classified a 'national security' concern:
Caldicott, Helen (2013) Obama Approves Raising Permissible Levels of Nuclear Radiation in Drinking Water. Civilian Cancer Deaths Expected to Skyrocket',
Global Research,http://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-approves-raising-permissible-levels-of-nuclear-radiation-in-drinking-water-civilian-cancer-deaths-expected-to-skyrocket/5331224
PEER (2013, April 14) Obama Approves Raising Permissible Levels of Nuclear Radiation in Drinking Water. Civilian Cancer Deaths Expected to Skyrocket:Rollback in Nuclear Radiation Cleanup by Global Research News
Majia here: The powers that be have decided for us that panic is a greater risk than radiation poisoning. That decision is being made in a manner that is not transparent, nor democratic.
5. Mass Adverse Mortality Events constitute the last major event. Many forms of Pacific coast fauna are experiencing huge adverse mortality events.The anomalies are adding up and the die-offs are unprecedented in my lifetime.
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/animal-anomalies-is-fukushima-daiichi.html
I don't know how anyone can ignore the constellation of events that has recently converged:
1. Repressive state secrets laws
2. Rising radiation levels at the site
3. Increased censorship of webcam data during a period of documented emissions and strange phenomena
4. De facto loosening of exposure guidelines in Japan and US
5. Mass Pacific coast adverse mortality events
This convergence of events is worrisome.
RESOURCES
I don't know how anyone can ignore the constellation of events that has recently converged:
1. Repressive state secrets laws
2. Rising radiation levels at the site
3. Increased censorship of webcam data during a period of documented emissions and strange phenomena
4. De facto loosening of exposure guidelines in Japan and US
5. Mass Pacific coast adverse mortality events
This convergence of events is worrisome.
RESOURCES
October 2013 Interview with James Fetzer about my book,Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk (Palgrave, 2013)
Sep
7, 2013 Voice of
Russia http://voicerussia.com/2013_09_07/Fukushima-not-under-control-6308/
July 23 2013 Voice of Russia http://voicerussia.com/radio_broadcast/70924886/118436060.html
PowerPoint of data examining reports of conditions at the plant and evidence of criticalities, which can be seen here
http://www.academia.edu/4314657/Fukushima_Update_Aug_2013
or here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/11xz1zjgwcsbpo0/Fukushima%20Update%20Aug%202013.pptx
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