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@Majj I am glad as the sooner Japan realises that their 'spread-it-out' policy isn't going to be tolerated the better for everybody

TEPCO's mounting losses ajw.asahi.com

nikkei falling again :(

@elainekirk you need sleep go to bed :)

OPINION: Lessons of Fukushima and Hiroshima

By Joseph Cirincione
TOKYO, Aug. 9, Kyodo

Sixty-six years and 800 kilometers separate the disasters at Fukushima and Hiroshima. But the lesson is the same: nuclear technology is inherently dangerous whether in a nuclear power plant or a nuclear bomb.

Fukushima showed us that nuclear power is neither cheap nor clean. The multiple nuclear meltdowns are one of the most expensive man-made disasters in history. It will take decades and billions of dollars to control, cool and seal the reactors.

Radioactive contamination has shown up in milk, meat and urine many kilometers from the disaster site. In the end, officials will likely be forced to bury the reactors in tombs of sand and concrete that will dot the Japanese shoreline for centuries in mute testimony to industrial and government folly.

Hiroshima demonstrated that science had mastered the basic energy force of the universe, but not our basic instincts. Rather than heed the popular pleas to ban atomic bombs -- including from many of the American scientists that built the first bombs -- the United States, Russia and other nations made thousands more.

Forty years later, in 1986, there were almost 70,000 hydrogen and atomic bombs in the world -- enough to destroy life on Earth hundreds of times over.

The good news is that we are moving towards more sane policies on nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The Japanese people are demanding that their government reconsider the entire national energy program. Governments in Germany, Switzerland and other countries have canceled new reactors. And the rising cost of nuclear power has effectively killed the ''nuclear renaissance,'' encouraging new investments in safer, cleaner energy sources.

There is also great progress on nuclear weapons. Since 1986, we have cut global nuclear arsenals by more than 70 percent, down to about 20,000 weapons.

More cuts are coming as security officials increasingly recognize that nuclear weapons are a liability not a security asset. Many world leaders, including in America and Japan, now seek ''the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,'' as President Barack Obama has said.

There is great resistance to these changes, however. Those that benefit financially or politically from the existing system will fight to keep their jobs and profits. Our great new ally, ironically, is the global financial crisis. Tighter budgets encourage security leaders to abandon obsolete and expensive nuclear programs in order to preserve the conventional military weapons they actually need. We already see this occurring in the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom.

The next two decades are likely to see nations continue to move away from the false paths charted at Hiroshima and Fukushima and towards more rational security and energy strategies.

(Joseph Cirincione is president of Ploughshares Fund, a nuclear policy foundation, and author of ''Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons.'')

==Kyodo
english.kyodonews.jp

@lillymunster lets hope enough is discovered between now and then for it to be shut down

@lillymunster does sound iffy . I missed your aka-tsubu article just saw rockhopper retweet it :) I have tweeted fbooked now it is a great article ty

ikrockhopper Itsumi Kakefuda
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Fukushima Dai-ni (=second) nuclear plant also lost electricity after 3.11 quake, although partially. "Luckily, it was ... Friday, with thousands of workers. If it were weekend, We couldn't have avoided the worse," the on-site director. (Tokyo Shimbun)

@lillymunster frightening I will wait till it is on your roundup to tweet

So will Kan write a book after he steps down? www.asahi.com

@hudebnik I am warming to the guardian

The story checks out there is a gov pdf translate.google.com

Kino Longyi kinoryuichi (Ryuichi KINO)
by kanbou_tyoukan
Tsuboi, Tokyo Electric Power Conference - Deputy Director - Ministry of Education, within 30km radius from the Fisheries Agency in Fukushima Daiichi is not carried out a sampling of the seafood at all. When I asked why I have not taken, "sampling have been addressed to the fishermen, the fishermen did not have it." What yeah? # genpatsu # fukushima

Compost over の か ら benchmark radioactive セ シ ウ ム = Shimane
　Shimane Prefecture, on February 11 announced that radioactive cesium was found to exceed the provisional regulations of cow manure as a raw material. (2011/08/11-19: 43) www.jiji.com

Nuclear commission erases children's exposure data

Japan's nuclear watchdog has been found to have erased from its website, data on the results of thyroid checkups for children in Fukushima Prefecture.

The Nuclear Safety Commission had uploaded the test results carried out by the government in March. More than 1,000 children aged 15 or younger were checked to see whether radioactive substances are accumulating in their thyroid.

The results included information that showed a 4-year-old infant in Iwaki City was exposed to 35 millisieverts of radiation. This amount is not considered a health threat.

But the commission removed all the data earlier this month. It cited the possibility that individual children could be identified because detailed information such as the 4-year-old's address was included.

The deletion is drawing criticism as no other similar data is available on children's health. Children have greater risks of developing thyroid cancer.

Professor emeritus Hirotada Hirose of Tokyo Woman's Christian University says the commission cannot escape blame that it removed the data fearing a negative reaction to children's exposure. He said the move runs counter to providing accurate information to the public.

Thursday, August 11, 2011 10:24 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

@Edano hopefully we can get the translation and highlight it I didnt know how to handle it when I saw lopez tweet it so I asked rockhopper and he went digging and safechild got the original fax a month ago from somebody who did realise the significance but due to all the propoganda about everything being safe it just never got taken up as an issue the article on safechild is from last month

the IAEA and the ICRP did a good, silent, hidden job after chernobyl redefining human health towards radiation effects. now we see the results of this criminal doing. i wish the world would wake up. this is not made to protect humankind, this is only made to protect the nuke industry. what in hell can we do ???