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@elainekirk people have told me that the jeep from the ABCC would pull up in front of their house and they just had to go right then, even if they were cooking dinner, or doing anything--they had no choice. There is still a lot of anger about the ABCC but also a lot of pride that the data has helped people.

@bo
have you seen the article we houseoffoust.com put together with our Japanese friends

@bo we are trying to spread the news have you seen the aka tsubu campaign?
houseoffoust.com

Radiation measurement experts trained

The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant plans to train about 4,000 workers as experts on the safety of irradiated areas.

The government plans to consider lifting evacuation orders for zones which are deemed safe after it achieves the second phase of bringing the plant under control. In the second stage, the government aims to significantly reduce the amount of radiation emitted from the plant.

To determine the safety of the 20-kilometer no-entry zone and the evacuated areas, a large number of experts on radiation exposure will be required. Tokyo Electric Power Company is now training staff for that purpose.

TEPCO plans to have about 4,000 workers take the training by the end of the year. Around 1,900 workers have already completed it.

The Natural Resources and Energy Agency also plans to train 250 personnel by year-end.

TEPCO will have the experts control exposure for workers at the Fukushima plant and measure radiation levels to confirm the evacuated zones are safe enough for people to return home.

Friday, August 12, 2011 08:08 +0900 (JST)
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@Edano EXPERTS!! 1 days training???

I have to sleep g'night

Good night elaine, thanks.

Cool lilly. I was in Osaka for two days, i'll send more links on Hanford today.

@lilly there have been over 2000 nuclear tests on earth, over 1000 of them were in Nevada (this includes underground tests)

Interesting, someone ascribed some of the ill effects to hydrazine put in the water at Fuku
"Eczema and skin itching eyes and sore throats, I might have been injected with hydrazine in order to prevent corrosion in the primary system." Hydrazine "is toxic, the eyes and throat stimulating. "Serve You. After searching the net, I'm of the same symptoms many people in Tokyo. Yappari say something or rather ....

38 cases of suspected heat stroke at Fukushima
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@bo I saw an article a few days ago about people setting small Obon fires of pine branches in front of their temporary housing.

Special district for medical research Fukushima ex-skf.blogspot.com

Thanks lilly. And regarding the ex-sfk post, ah, a new generation of research subjects and test patients for risky procedures. The victimization goes on and on...

Missing by design? If history is an indicator. We will take the ruined health and lives of these people and learn what we can for future generations of victims.

All the disasters, all the people exposed to one extent or another yet nothing seems to change, no effective preemptive safety system that works. BTW, I think an accident would be poorly handled if it happened in the US.

I am probably more pessimistic after reading up on Hanford and the Nevada tests.
I was telling Elaine earlier I found some information on the Pathfinder reactor and there are multiple accounts that something bad happened. I talked to someone who was involved in the citizens watchdog group. He gave me a pile of leads and told me what he knew. It sounds like it may have had some sort of major failure.

Just ran across this, US considered building nuclear power plant at Hiroshima in 1953 www.asahi.com

Yes, a student of mine is working on the history of that attempt in Hiroshima. Yes, working on the history of nuclear issues, there is no reason to be optimistic about what lies ahead.

Local officials testing school lunches in Tokyo ajw.asahi.com

@bo It has a very brief and abrupt history. They started it up, shut it down and dismantled it. One of the local physics professors says it shook horribly when they began to ramp it up. That was the one and only time it ran. Most of the pipefitters who did the dismantling died of cancer prematurely. They were under gag orders related to their settlements. The plant was run by NSP power workers who had some basic instruction at another reactor. One of the people I spoke to said the turbine building side still had significant radiation in the pipes in the 1990's. They removed all the reactor parts and decontaminated in 1968.

@bo containment? air filters? naw we don't need those. The reactors at Hanford didn't have any containment structure, at least the original one.