March 11, 2019
Every year since year 2011, at this time of the year when the anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster comes, I feel angry, tired and depressed.
First for the unwillingness to learn and to change. How many nuclear disasters have already happened and how many more will need to happen for people to finally learn and bring vital changes.
Also because when a disaster occurs it is suddenly hot news, everybody getting excited, thrilled with its sensationalism, some even exploiting it by turning it into fear porn. Then with time passing by, when it is not hot news anymore but becomes a cold old news, people kinda forget about it. They only remember it again just when its anniversary comes. But for the people on location, in Fukushima, everyday is a Fukushima anniversary, they have to live with it.
An American antinuclear friend of mine recently talking about the coming Fukushima nuclear disaster anniversary employed the word “occured”, “occured” in the past tense. I immediately reacted, english is not my mother tongue, but I pointed out to her that it was wrong for her to use the verb occur in its past tense, that it would be more correct to use the words “started”, because the Fukushima nuclear disaster started on March 11, 2011, and since then is still now ongoing unsolved.
The Fukushima nuclear disaster after 8 years is maybe a cold news, but its 3 reactors are still hot and will be still hot for decades and even more, for a very long time, as the technology to stop the fusion of a meltdown corium does not exist, has not been yet invented. Even those specially-made expensive robots cannot handle it, getting rapidly fried after few hours or a couple of days.
This is the contrary of course of the propaganda hammered by all media, orchestrated by Tepco, the Japanese Government and the Nuclear Lobby, which claims that the situation is now under control, that solutions are being worked out to gradually dismantle the whole thing. All part of a massive campaign of disinformation downplaying the real situation in the mind of the general public.
What also makes me angry is that most of the year, the media are not really covering anymore the Fukushima disaster, but at the time of the Fukushima disaster’s anniversary they are suddenly in a frenzy, each one to publish one article about it, those articles just repeating over and over again the same spiel spread over the years by Tepco. A well oiled spiel orchestrated by Dentsu, the Tepco’s public relations company, and ETHOS, the nuclear lobby’s public relations organization, working together to downplay the disaster’s situation in the mind of the general public, and to soothe the fears of the victimized population on location so as to make them stay and live with radiation in the affected zones zone. No damage control of the meltdown, but a effective damage control of the mind of the public.
No, the Fukushima nuclear disaster has not ended, it is still ongoing. The Fukushima people have to live with the radiation affecting their daily life, dangerous radioactive microparticles present everywhere, contamination of their produce, water, air and living environment. By ordering the state of emergency in 2011, the government raised the radiation threshold from the international standard of 1 mSv per year to 20mSv per year for Fukushima, declaring it safe to live with. Mind you the 20 mSv per year threshold is the international radiation threshold for nuclear workers inside nuclear plants, not for the public.Nuclear workers during their work are allowed to be exposed up to 20 mSV within a five year work period. We have now in Fukushima prefecture a population of almost 2 million people, included children and infants, left to live in contaminated territory at radiation level meant for nuclear workers only.
While the media never fail to talk about about the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors and of the decontamination of Fukushima Prefecture, they always fail to mention that those three reactors thru their unstopped meltdown are still constantly releasing radionuclides loaded gases into the open air, into the environment, distributed by winds locally and even far away.
Why none of those media ever mention the 20 plus incinerators operating in Fukushima prefecture? Those incinerators incinerate radioactive debris accumulated from land decontamination during the the past years, wanting to reduce the 16 million tons of radioactive debris scattered all over the Fukushima prefecture, usually covered by green tarpaulin to make them looked like some kind of new rice paddies from afar. Those incinerators which are also redistributing radioactive particles into the air, into the environment.
When it comes to the Shoah during WWII, there is the memory duty, to keep future generations knowing about it, to not forget, and to keep it from ever happening again.
When it comes to nuclear disasters, where is the memory duty? I believe that only to celebrate an anniversary once a year is not enough. Especially when it comes to a still ongoing unresolved disaster. How many more of such nuclear disasters do we need to us to finally force our elected politicians to put an end to the nuclear madness?
Links to various articles from March 1 to March 11, 2019, the best ones carrying *** three stars should definitely to be read:
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***Atomic Balm Part 1: Prime Minister Abe Uses The Tokyo Olympics As Snake Oil Cure For The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Meltdowns
***The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and the Tokyo Olympics
https://apjjf.org/2019/05/Koide-Field.html
Schools refitted in Fukushima, but enrollment remains dismal
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903010026.html
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Most mayors of disaster-hit Fukushima areas urge review of compensation guidelines: survey
Scars are there, but Fukushima residents trying to pick up pieces
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903050058.html
Fukushima’s ice wall keeps radiation from spreading around the world
https://www.cnet.com/news/fukushima-ice-wall-prevents-leaking-of-radioactive-water/
Judge Tosses Fukushima Radiation Class Action
2019 Annual Report On The Fukushima Disaster (Technical, unfortunately based only on Tepco’s released reports, and we all know are how reliable is Tepco with facts and numbers, Tepco in 8 years have never been honest nor staighforwading with facts, lying always thru their teeth).
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Japan leg of 2020 Olympics torch relay to start at J-Village in Fukushima
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Nuclear evacuees to face tougher housing situations from April
Eight years after triple meltdown, Fukushima No. 1’s water woes slow to recede
8 Years On: Revenue to Fall at Fukushima Towns after Plant Decommissioning
12.5% of Japanese city-dwellers still hesitant about buying food from nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima
***First images of fuel debris fallout particles from Fukushima Daiichi
http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2019/march/fukushima-particles.html
***Eight Years on, Fukushima Still Poses Health Risks for Children
http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/03/eight-years-fukushima-still-poses-health-risks-children/
Contaminated soil remains near Fukushima homes
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190307_09/
***Fukushima at 8: Accusations of scientific misconduct concern city in Japan
The Fukushima nuclear disaster’s legacy: An inescapable stigma
https://www.cnet.com/news/the-fukushima-nuclear-disasters-legacy-an-inescapable-stigma/
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UK, Japan scientists study radioactive Fukushima particles
23% of residents have returned to former Fukushima hazard zones
Fukushima evacuees resist return as ‘Reconstruction Olympics’ nears
Eight years on, water woes threaten Fukushima cleanup
***Fukushima : un risque de cancer de la thyroïde multiplié par 15
***Japanese government misleading UN on impact of Fukushima fallout on children, decontamination workers
Damages Suit of The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Kyoto
Over 12,000 Fukushima victims have filed 30 cases in different regions against the government and TEPCO:
Back in the water: Fukushima no-go zone gets first surf shop since disaster
***Atomic Balm Part 2: The Run For Your Life Tokyo Olympics
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***Health issues (and corruption of the medical system) after the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Fukushima 311 Watchdogs 
Reblogged this on 20 millisieverts per year.
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Translated into French and re-blogged on https://www.crashdebug.fr with additional information from the last 8 years
Un autre anniversaire : bien sûr, mais la catastrophe nucléaire de Fukushima se poursuit tous les jours de l’année…
https://www.crashdebug.fr/international/15770-un-autre-anniversaire-bien-sur-mais-la-catastrophe-nucleaire-de-fukushima-se-poursuit-tous-les-jours-de-l-annee
Kind regards,
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From Majias Blog
SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2019
Japanese Government Absolved of Legal Responsibility for Fukushima Daiichi Disaster
Court Absolves Government of Blame in Nuclear Disaster. The Asahi Shimbun, http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903150041.html
While the presiding judge ordered TEPCO to pay compensation to nine plaintiffs from four households, it denied the central government’s responsibility. “We can’t say that it is illegal that the central government didn’t force TEPCO to take preventive measures against a tsunami,” the judge said.
This court is essentially stating that the government has NO RESPONSIBILITY for safety regulation of dangerous industries.
At least, that is what it sounds like to me….
If governments aren’t responsible and accountable for regulating dangerous industries, then there is really no hope for our survival.
Commentary
Of course, the Japanese Government has always acted like it was absolved from public responsibility, for the Fukushima Disaster.
They have never felt they were accountable, for regulating the dangerous Nuclear industry in Japan or, enforcing direct laws and regulation over the nuclear industries or environmental laws, regulating RADIONUCLIDE waste and pollution from nuclear industry in Japan.. That is why the Japanese Government continues to open, possibly damaged reactors, in Japan, in unsafe areas, post Fukushima. The Japanese government also continues to allow radioactive waste from Fukushima to be incinerated and blow over Japan.
The United States Government has always acted like it was absolved from responsibility for pollution and consequences, when it comes to regulating the Nuclear industry in America and the environmental-health impacts of such absolution. That is why the Price-Anderson act exists in America.. That is why the government allows Nuclear Reactor companies and nuclear waste corporations to put the High level Nuclear waste, AMERICIUM in cheap Smoke detectors, in America, to reduce the amount of high level nuclear waste, around reactors.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/that-time-a-boy-scout-built-a-nuclear-reactor-out-of-common-household-items
Art Robinson, the pronuclear Republican Politician, from Oregon, wants to dump radioactive waste from airplanes on cities and, rural areas to vaccinate people against Radiation as a form of Hormesis. Art Robinson has been the Head of the republican party in Oregon, for many years.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/oregon-gop-art-robinson-nuclear-waste-airplanes/
ATomic Rod Adams
Wants to Use small plutonium reactors to power Automobile engines
Donald Trump will consider having zero regulation of the nuclear industry, and going along with these genocidal propositions.
Art Robinson will market home-Infusions of Radiopharmaceutical solutions made of Cesium 137 and other nuclear waste FOR HORMESIS.
THE radiopharmaceutical home-infusion bag and needle, iv line, will be delivered right to your door for 200 dollars a bag.
You can home-infuse the small plastic IV bagof glowing-radiopharmaceutical preparation directly into your arm ones Fed Ex. Delivers it.
The IV preparation will give you Hormesis against radiation.
You can then throw the IV needle, and iv line, the empty radiopharmaceutical IV bag right in the garbage, to go to the landfill.
Kills two birds with the same stone! Reduces nuclear waste buildup, around reactors and relieves people from worries about the radiation problem!
It is also highly profitable, which is the most important aspect of such a scheme, from a libertarian and republican point of view.
https://xenagoguevicene.com/2019/03/16/west-sends-unwanted-recyclable-waste-to-third-world-where-they-burn-it-or-just-let-it-sit-rt-16-march-2019/
The Plasic Garbage, that is made from fracked Fossil fuel goes to recycling centers. Billions of gallons of fossil fuel are used, to ship the plastic garbage across the Pacific to languish or burn and not be recycled. How bloody stupid is that!
The plastic goes into rivers in Malaysia and, then goes into the ocean to add to the continent sized island of plastic, in the Pacific. What a scam. So wasteful.
America is a crudhole. Think of all the fossil fuel, and goddamed chemical waste, it takes to make the plastic shit. Then they haul that used plastic garbage all the way across the Pacific Ocean.
Think of All the fracked fossil fuel and nuclear energy, gas, coal : it takes to make the plastic . The other chemicals and chemical waste pollution. What a wasteful, unsustainable crudhole society this is. Uses and burns , quadrillion of gallons of fossil fuel yearly. People, life and the earth completely expendible.
A jerk like Art Robertson supports this . He completely supports Nuclear Energy.
Art Robinson supports dumping nuclear waste from the sky, on all of us , to vaccinate us from Radiation. It is called Hormosis. Art Robertson is the father of So called altscience and a racist jerk
Art Robinson is funded by trump. HE IS A SYMBOL OF THE GREAT WHITE HOPE!
HE Won’t hold back on TELLING YA WHAT A bloody GENIUS HE IS . Brags about His Nuclear Engineer kids.
ART ROBINSON is one of the reasons Trump fired all the real scientists from the national weather service . My National Wether Service reads that it is 63 and sunny here, when it is 43 and cold and rainy.
Unbeleivabe, how stupid, hippocritical shallow and evil Americans are as they send amass troops in the Carribean to invade Bolivia and Venezuela .
Art Robinson is funded by Rebecca and Robert Mercer, who fund Trump. They founded Cambridge Analytica.
Robert Mercer runs a high speed stock-trading hedge fund on wall street. Survival of the creepiest and most psychopathic.
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