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Big no nukes demo tomorrow in Tokyo nonukesallstardemo.com

The big crane near unit 1 has an aircraft light on it now, or as Puc mentioned, they are starting a disco in unit 1

Another study that covers internal exposure a bit iopscience.iop.org

If anyone with Journal access can get the full version of this it could be useful
The mortality and cancer morbidity experience of workers at the Springfields uranium production facility, 1946-95

2000 J. Radiol. Prot. 20 111

@MaryW The closest thing I have to a library is over at the college. We don't have a functional public library.

full article
The effects of internal radiation exposure on cancer mortality in nuclear workers at Rocketdyne/Atomics International.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Fukushima firms advised to put safety labels on products
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, Kyodo

Internationally active Japanese companies Thursday advised Fukushima Prefecture firms to put labels on food and other products to show they had passed safety tests to reassure overseas consumers worried by the impact of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

The advice came as Fukushima business leaders met with representatives of Japanese companies operating in the United States at the Japanese Consulate-General in New York to discuss how best to cope with the impact of the nuclear crisis on Fukushima products, meeting participants said.

Fukushima products ranging from food to screws were initially subject to import restrictions overseas due to radioactive contamination fears after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The safety labels would be put on products that clear radiation tests, recognizing them as free from radioactive contamination.

''I thought that the safety label proposal was a good idea,'' said Kenichi Shishido, who runs an insurance agency in Koriyama in the prefecture. ''I would like to tell my business colleagues in Fukushima that we should positively sell our products in the world.''

The companies also recommended Fukushima business leaders consider investment in wind and other non-nuclear electricity generation projects as well as advanced medical technology and other areas to create employment in the prefecture.

==Kyodo

TEPCO tries to claim the fire yesterday was a light coming from the right. The big work spotlight was on, we see that frequently it wasn't the work light..


　TBS cameras on live news site that constantly relay the first primary state of TEPCO Fukushima, "Fire" dawn on December 2, 2011 reflected that, but uproar on the Internet now.

　According to the audience watching the footage, there are buildings in the vicinity of the nuclear emission of orange reflected in the lower right, that it was almost like a fire. At that moment the video still images are immediately diffused on the Internet. Twitter is 2ch and etc., "I burn," "What are all right," "suspicious fire" "Do not I already bad," responded that there was.

　For this review, and contact the public relations department of the Tokyo Electric Power,

"It is not particularly there was a fire. Set up lighting for night work from December 01, last night it is lit from the right, likely to be light,"

Answered, and on the Internet "fire" was denied the commotion.
getnews.jp

U.N. adopts Japanese-led nuclear abolition resolution for 18th yr

NEW YORK, Dec. 2, Kyodo

The U.N. General Assembly on Friday adopted a Japanese-led resolution calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons for the 18th year in a row.

Calling for efforts to create a nuclear-free world and urging North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions, the resolution was supported by 169 countries in a vote at the assembly's plenary session.

The number of backers was down from the record 173 logged last year. Eleven countries such as China, India, Iran, Israel and Pakistan abstained and North Korea was the only country to vote against it.

The resolution reaffirmed the importance of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and called on nonnuclear states who have not signed on to immediately join the pact.

It also voiced misgivings about North Korea's uranium enrichment activity and construction of a light-water nuclear reactor, and urged the reclusive state's immediate relinquishment of its nuclear programs.

==Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp

@Pedro Jesus
The U.N. General Assembly on Friday adopted a Japanese-led resolution calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons for the 18th year in a row.

Japan, Russia scientists see high chance of cloning mammoth

YAKUTSK, Russia, Dec. 3, Kyodo

Scientists from Japan and Russia have confirmed that there is well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth thighbone found in August in permafrost soil in Siberia, increasing the possibility that they could clone a mammoth, they recently told Kyodo News.

The teams from the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum and Kinki University's graduate school in biology-oriented science and technology will launch full-fledged joint research next year to regenerate the gigantic mammal believed to have become extinct about 10,000 years ago, they said.

By transplanting nuclei taken from the marrow cells into elephant egg cells whose nuclei have been removed through a type of cloning technique, embryos with a mammoth gene can be produced and planted into elephant wombs for delivery, as the two species are close relatives, they said.

Securing nuclei with an undamaged gene is essential for the nucleus transplantation technique, but doing so from mammoth body parts has long been difficult and prevented the scientists engaged in the research since around the late 1990s from reproducing a mammoth, they said.

In the Sakha Republic in eastern Russia, global warming has thawed its almost permanently frozen ground and led to discoveries of many frozen mammoths, but cell nuclei are usually damaged by natural freezing or have not been kept frozen even if found in good conditions, a Russian museum official said.

This time, there is a high likelihood that biologically active nuclei can be extracted as the frozen marrow, found when museum scientists cut the thighbone on Nov. 13, was fresh and in unprecedentedly good condition, according to the official. The bone was found near Batagay in northern Sakha.

The technique for extracting nuclei, meanwhile, has improved dramatically in the past few years and some undamaged nuclei have been successfully taken from ill-preserved mammoth tissue fragments, albeit at low rates, said the Japanese team from Kinki University, based in Osaka Prefecture.

The museum, located in the republic's capital city of Yakutsk, soon notified the Japanese side, with which it has had close ties through joint research since 1997, including professor Akira Iritani and associate professor Hiromi Kato.

Iritani reaffirmed that the marrow, which he saw in photos, was good enough to increase the chances of mammoth regeneration, and said the Japanese team will try to obtain elephant eggs for the planned research, though this would not be easy.

==Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp

russia, esp siberia needs tourism :)

@Semyon Grigoriev welcome here, you are on auto-approve now. feel free to post.

first the yeti, then mammoths, wow,a golden future :)