This photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a trailer (bottom center) thought to be carrying nuclear fuel from one of the reactor buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
April 23, 2019
FUKUSHIMA, Japan(Kyodo) — The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant said Tuesday it has transferred some nuclear fuel from one of the reactor buildings damaged by hydrogen explosions in the 2011 disaster to another location for safer storage and management.
It was the first removal of such fuel from storage pools of the Nos. 1 to 3 units, which suffered meltdowns after losing power in the crisis triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami.
Seven unspent fuel rod assemblies were transferred Tuesday to a common pool about 100 meters away, according to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.
The transfer of nuclear fuel, which emits high levels of radiation, from the No. 3 unit pool is expected to lower the risk of the decommissioning work. The utility began the process of removing fuel there on April 15.
At around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, a trailer began relocating the fuel assemblies, placed in a cylinder-shaped cask, to the common pool. The task was completed in about 20 minutes, carried out by about a dozen workers donning protective gear.
Since the common pool undergoes regular checkups required by law, the fuel transfer will be suspended possibly until July, the operator said.
TEPCO aims to transfer all of the remaining 559 spent and unspent fuel assemblies in the No. 3 unit storage pool to the common pool by March 2021.
The fuel removal at the No. 3 unit was originally scheduled to start in late 2014, but was pushed back multiple times as high levels of radiation, among other factors, caused delays in preparation of fuel transfer.
In fiscal 2023, the utility aims to start the task of removing fuel at the storage pools of the Nos. 1-2 units and has been assessing their surroundings.
Even if the fuel removal work progresses smoothly, TEPCO still faces the biggest challenge involved in the decommissioning of the crippled plant — retrieval of melted fuel that has dripped down in the containment vessels — at the Nos. 1-3 units.
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Building three was full of MOX fuel. It detonated and was completely destroyed. There is no spent fuel there. No pools, no reactor.
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That’s for sure. Then there are the readings of high level radionuclides in Tokyo and Yokohama measured at 900 to 1200Bq by Busby and Kaltofen. We are allowing the criminals to lie us to death, with no push back.
Americas ready for a few Fukushimas
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The Japanese nuclear Village in Japan now wants to open all the old rickety reactors in Japan up. They want to extend all Reactors by 60 years. Fukushima be damned. The world be damned.
The Japanese nuclear village are going ahead gung-ho to have the olympics in the most radioactive place on earth.
Trump is down with it. He is down with doing the same for the older rickety, fukushima style reactors in the United States. Extending them 60 years.
Trump is down with allowing the Japanese to export radioactive food all over the world!
Trump is down with abrogating of all medium range nuclear weapon treatys and any treaties aimed at curtailiing or ending nuclear weapons. Trump is down with nukes in space. Trump is down with small-tactical first-strike nuclear weapons.
The world is in the most dangerous place it has ever been!
Acccordinding to Harvey wasserman we are in for a repeat of Shrub W Bush . That is, where Rove saw Bush couldnt get reelected so they wagged the dog with the iraq war. The democrat warmoning duopoly, acceded to the debauchey, the war crimes and genocides.
We were plunged into an illegal first-strike neo-con war with Iraq that has not ended. 1 million iraqi men, women and childre were murdered and radioactively poisoned to death with Uranium Munitions!
It continues in afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and iraq to this day.
Shrub bush was in big trouble with enron. A lot thought he could not get reelected so the neocon started their shennanigans weel before the iraq war.
I think Shrub w bush, neocons, bolton, cheney created 911 with the saudis, they created and ran through the patriot act . The Patriot act was the first leg of the corporate coups march towards ultimate fascism in murica.
I dont think the russians were active in social media and voting machine hacking to disrupt the election the way clintonites say he did but the dnc, clinton, pelosi dont want to impeach trump anyway.
Besides the republicans have gerrymandering, massive voter suppression and jim crow laws to to that dirty wrok for them.
There is no doubt that the bankrupsy king who drove 5 casinos into banlrupsy, has been heavily involved with money laundering with putin, the russian oligarchs and russian mafia for years.
There is no doubt that notorious neocon Michael Flynn was involved in a crooked deal with the russians to supply the saudi arabians with 18 nuclear reactors which will lead to the material and technology to make bombs.
The question is , whether a world that is already in such a dangerous place with fukushima, the dangerously declining us nuclear empire, can handle another 6 years of trump and its neocon insanity
https://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Trump-s-Real-Russkie-Runni-by-Harvey-Wasserman-Espionage_Socialism_Trump-Bully-In-Chief_Trump-Campaign-190425-758.html
Harvey waserman doubts we can last another 6 years of this insanity, in these perilous times. He thinks the trumpsters will take the bush , genocide, war- crime-low-road and start a war to get Trump reelected. And that will be it. A so called limited nuclear war in iran as the world burns. 200 or 300 fukushimas and fuel pools going off around the world.
Trump dont care. the apocolyptic fundamentalist christians dont care. The corporations dont care. the oligarchs dont care.
Wasserman and the Trump Bush Kill factor
“But then there’s the Kill Factor: WAR. When presidential adviser Karl Rove realized in 2003 that George W. Bush was about to lose re-election, he did the obvious thing: he went full military. The attack on Iraq was never about 9/11 or terrorism … it was always about making the very unpopular W. a war president.
It worked. John Kerry and the mainstream Democrats rolled over. To this day, they’ve said nothing about the theft of Ohio 2004. And some still defend their support of a worthless, useless, trumped-up slaughter that killed millions and cost trillions.
Never doubt that Trump is about to do the same. Be it Venezuela or Iran, Korea or Grand Fenwick, rest assured GOP operatives are hard at work mapping the target, scope, and timing for the coming conflagration.”
Blood sucker
There is little or no rebellion in the face of this gut wrenching , dead-body-rich, decline .
Everyone knows and sees the blood sucking. They have a blood sucker on their neck all day, as they cruise the internet, text and talk on their smart phone.
The abominable blood-sucking these days is leading to unprecedented ecoside, mass enforced poverty and unaffordable housing , unseen homelessness, increased death rates, increased infant mortality, decreased life expectancy, increased mass incarcertaion, decreased access to any health care, more bully cops ta shoot ya, shitty air, tainted pig meat thatll kill ya now, thanks to Trumpian deregulation, radioactive water from nuclear reactors and fracking, more filthy air, pesticides in food water, increased early dementa, massive cancer increases, massive increases in chronic disease, early death with no known cause except all the goddanmed cesium137-arsenic and uranium in his body, heavymetal in food, higher taxes, higher rent while wages are stagnant, masses of H1B Visas for foreign scabs with 3rd rate educations who screw, massively-debt ridden college grads here out of jobs .
It is a vampire war of the top 10 or 20 percent against us. It is the few, rich strong vampire bankers, the political and celebrity class, the military class, the oligarchs. The gulper, exploiter, manipulators, corrupt criminals and thieves-sucking the world dry and the american public is too stupid and selfcentered to do anything about it.
The scumbags figured out after the 60s, that by continually bombarding the goobers with a combination of mass government and corporate controlled coordinated propaganda that instills a fake celebrity universe and a mass consumption culture in all of us no one would do anything
Techniques of indoctrination perfected through 50 years of bullshit and lies in murica on madison avenue. Funded apportioned and prosecuted via ivy league elites , in washington dc and oligarch think tanks.
Idiological and illusional lifestyles, strongly infused with a mass underlying theme of superficial self-absorption.
They have now completed the conquering of the murican goobs. It is done with a combination of 4g smart phone devices, internet, mass surveillance, social media and a culture of mass narcissism.
They now have armys of narcissistic robots, incapable of resisting-being devoured by them, the vampire squid.
Incapable of being moved to act against their their fake projected gulper fantasies , lies, propaganda and delusions. Mass consumption and destruction that is doing the vampires in too.
They knew there would be little push back, if they got the social engineering right . They knew the corporate duolpoly would thrive . They knew any delusions of democracy would remain just that, as delusions, as they finish everything off and, clean everything off the bones .
I look at the yellow vest movement as it fizzles in france and my heart sinks.
I was heartened by all those people willing to get arrested in the extinction rebellion. it was like american activists were willing to do in the 60s 70s and 80s.
Maybe there is some corporate contrivance to aspects of the extinction rebellion. It shows me that some of the vampire squid are getting scared though.
I love Ted Rall and he is right on here about the vampire-squid political duopoly class
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Democrats-Refusal-to-Impe-by-Ted-Rall-2020-Elections_Democrats_Election_Impeach-Trump-190424-599.html
I look at the yellow vest movement as it fizzles in france. My heart sinks.
I was heartened by all those people willing to get arrested in the extinction rebellion. it was like american activists were willing to do in the 60s 70s and 80s.
Maybe there is some corporate contrivance to aspects of the extinction rebellion. It shows me that some of the vampire squid are getting scared though.
I love Ted Rall and he is right on here about the vampire-squid political duopoly class
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Please dont post this herve. have no other way to contact u. all i have is a mobile device. in poor health. i saw the article u put up about USA homelessnees from zerhedge.
i went w a humantarian group to LA in 2009 . There were at least 200,000 homeless people in greater losangeles cpunty there then. There are millions of homeless in murica now upto 10 million not the half million zerohedge says.
i dont like zerohedge because they are altright and many times propaganda. they recently floated a bogus article that the chinese had troops in venezuela. they had an article encouraging the proudboys , brownshirt nazis and fascists they sponsor to beat up black people and college students last year. steve bannon cambridge analytica altright, appear to have interlocking nodes influence on mutiple fronts they support and manipulate on the internet . that is why there were so many psyops and agents on enenews. they are all about money and power and could care less about nuclear or fukushima.
Pompeo BOLTON PRince Bannon
Pompeo Maximus says the USA is exceptional and the govt can lie to its people and the world as much as it wants
It was all contrived and planned like this from the beginning. Like the Gore Vidal movie Bob Roberts. Look at operation gladio in europe
by the CIA.
The Japanese had an unimaginable nuclear disaster . An ongoing disaster threatens to take down the american and world economies.
How have the Ukrainians responding to a nuclear conflagration that sent so many into diaspora?
They allowed crooks and tyrants to raid their treasury in their weakness, massive illlness and with everyone packing up and leaving.
They allowed the slimy USA to create a revolution there, where nazis took power.
They still have 15 of the oldest, most rickety, most-dangerous nuclear reactors in the world running full bore in Ukraine, with little no safety regulation or oversight.
The ukraine has 10s of thousands of tons of un-guarded shoddily-casked, highlevel nuclear waste, stranded at sights throughout the country. Waste that is so dangerous, that if you came 40 feet of a hundred pounds of it, it would kill you.
The USA is an authotarian Nuclear Bully
The USA is a massive imperial nuclear and military dominated state with a huge semihiddem National Security apparatus and Nuclear secrets and security act of its own, that nuked its popoulation with a thounsand openair nuke bombs from 1947 to 1963. They had to have a whitle-blower persecution and elimination apparatus in place to pull of all of the nuclear testing they have done on citizens and the rest of the world.
I am sure that the USA deep state wrote the nuclear secrecy laws for Japan.
The US has used secret national security laws to allow the FBI to harrass and jail nuclear and peace activists for 70 years!
The usa spends 100 billion a year on gestaop-like intelligence agencies for gods sake! the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, DEA , DHS and 14 other alphabeth soup agencies. They have no supervision or answerability, since the patriot act. Most of the US secret-police-gestapo spook organs, lost track of their mandate years ago. They probably neverbelieved in their charter and mandate.
It is all part of the massive american national security state, which is largely in place to impose the dictums of the oligarchs, foreign oligarchs, the military industrial complex and corporations over the rights of the ordinary citizen. DAPL a prime example
The secrecy act, given to abe to use in japan, is from the blueprint of national securty fascism that has been prosecuted in murica for 65 years. Not that most of the hollowskulled, brainwashed creatures that call them selves Muricans really care, in the murican matrix.
Many believe that the rosenburgs were innocent dupes executed to grandstand the need for more the extreme authoritarian laws prosecuted on americans in the 50s and since then. It is unlikely any whistlblower protections will be enacted in light of the fact that the USA has not seriously taken the CIA or FBI or NSA to task since the church hearings in the 70s and all that was washed away by the Bush Fascists after the 911 they created.
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Clash of Civilizations 2.0 Sponsored by Prince and Bannon
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Blackwater mercenary company founder Erik Prince and the self-appointed leader of Fascist International, Steve Bannon, have joined forces and dusted off the old discredited neo-conservative theory of “Clash of Civilizations,” to threaten global stability with religious and ethnic nationalism.
One of the more important revelations in former Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the 2016 election is the close working relationship Bannon established with Prince. Sensing fertile political ground for their far-right beliefs, Bannon and Prince have established, under the aegis of their professed Catholicism, a movement that threatens both the current pope and the European Union.
The Clash of Civilizations was the main tenet of Harvard University’s Samuel P. Huntington. Huntington also defended the pro-fascist Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of Mexico and the military dictatorship of Brazil. Huntington was also a champion of South Africa’s apartheid state and advocated its “reform” rather than its abolishment. Huntington’s approaches to Latin American immigration into the United States serves a basis for the draconian anti-immigration policies of Donald Trump and his “immigration czar,” Stephen Miller. Huntington saw Europe and Western Europe, including Croatia and Slovenia, along with Australia and New Zealand as a “core civilization” against the rest of the world. Huntington made it a point to exclude from the core civilization the Christian Orthodox nations of the Balkans, including Greece, as well as Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and Armenia.
To advance political domination by far-right political parties and politicians, Bannon has been busy establishing a training academy for far-right wing Christian zealots at the Trisulti Charterhouse in Collepardo in central Italy. Bannon has admitted that he is following George Soros’s global playbook. Instead of a neo-liberal global network, like that of Soros, Bannon is creating a far-right political movement in Europe that will extend its tentacles around the world, primarily in Huntington’s “core civilization” countries plus Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. With his political group, called “The Movement” in operation in Brussels and targeting upcoming European Parliament elections, Bannon has taken advantage of a schism within the Roman Catholic Church to convincing those opposed to Pope Francis I to permit him to set up shop in the 13th century monastery in Collepardo.
Bannon is clearly setting the stage for a revised “clash of civilizations” between Judeo-Christianity and the rest of the world. Fascism is seen as the preferred political system for the Western “core.”
Bannon’s colleague in the 2016 Trump campaign, Michael Ledeen, the notorious neo-conservative, wrote a book in 1972 that promotes the fascist political philosophy. Titled “Universal Fascism: The Theory and Practice of the Fascist International, 19281936,” Ledeen describes in glowing terms Mussolini’s efforts to create an international Fascist movement in the late 1920s and early 1930s. According to an interview Ledeen gave to the neo-con “National Review” in 2002, the Ledeen Doctrine boils down to the following credo: “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.” Mussolini’s template has largely been adopted by Bannon, who, still has, along with arch neo-con national security adviser John Bolton, still have Trump’s ear on foreign policy.
Bannon is attempting to purge the nexus of his Judeo-Christian core civilization of perceived enemies, who include Vatican loyalists of Pope Francis. Bannon in cooperation with the extremely conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke and former Pope Benedict XVI has been waging a political jihad against Pope Francis. Bannon believes the current pontiff to be a dangerous liberal and a “Cultural Marxist,” who supported many of President Barack Obama’s policies. Bannon and a right-wing Catholic group close to Burke, the Institute of Human Dignity, or Dignitatis Humana Institute, which runs Bannon’s new headquarters at the Trisulti Abbey, opposes Francis’s goal of avoiding a “clash of civilizations” between Christianity and Islam.
Bannon, in cooperation with Cardinal Raymond Burke and former Pope Benedict XVI, has been waging a war against Pope Francis I. Bannon sees Francis as a dangerous liberal and a “Cultural Marxist,” who supported President Barack Obama’s policies. Bannon and a right-wing Catholic group close to Burke, the Institute of Human Dignity, or “Dignitatis Humana Institute,’ which owns Bannon’s new headquarters at the Trisulti Abbey, opposes Francis’s goal of avoiding a “clash of civilizations,” particularly one between Christianity and Islam.
Bannon’s financial firm, Bannon & Company, is investing in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, believed by many financial experts to be a giant scam. Cryptocurrencies are favored by neo-Nazis and fascists to fund their activities without the worry of financial surveillance from bank regulators and financial intelligence agencies. Bannon, as a former Goldman Sachs executive, understands how to avoid financial network roadblocks.
One of the mandatory studies at Bannon’s academy for neo-Nazis will most certainly be on the works and thoughts of Julius Evola (1898-1974), a far-right Italian philosopher, who provided the inspiration for several fascist terrorist attacks in Italy during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, including the deadly Bologna central rail station bombing in 1980. Bannon is a promoter of Evola’s doctrine, which is known as Traditionalism. The followers of Evola are called the “Children of the Sun” and they include adherents of two leading neo-Nazi parties in Europe: Golden Dawn in Greece and Jobbik in Hungary. Other Traditionalist philosophers, all of whom dabbled in Indo-European Aryan occultism and, to varying degrees, embraced fascism in the interwar years, include Romanian Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), French/Egyptian Rene’ Gue’non (1886-1951), and Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) Ananda Coomaraswamy (1887-1947).
US neo-Nazi leader and “alt-right” term creator, Richard Spencer, a college friend of Trump’s anti-immigration czar, Stephen Miller, is also a follower of Evola. Evola’s writings were an inspiration to Benito Mussolini Fascist movement and Heinrich Himmler’s Schutzstaffel (SS). Evola even visited SS headquarters in Germany to proselytize his philosophy of fascism to the SS rank and file.
Bannon’s and Prince’s intertwined political finances were exposed during the 2016 presidential campaign. Prince donated some $150,000 to the pro-Trump PAC “Make America Number 1 in 2016.” In turn, the PAC funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to Cambridge Analytica and Glittering Steel, a video production company. Bannon co-founded both companies. Bannon was also buoyed by generous funding from hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer. Currently, with a seemingly endless supply of funds, Bannon is waging a far-right insurgency in Europe involving neo-Nazi, fascist, and right-wing Catholic organizations close to Opus Dei.
Erik Prince abandoned the conservative Calvinism of his auto parts-manufacturing wealthy father to embrace Catholicism, Opus Dei, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta based in Rome and a rival-laden headache for Pope Francis and the Legionnaires of Christ. Opus Dei was founded by Spanish priest Josemaría Escriva’ in 1928 as a pro-fascist and pro-Francisco Franco answer to the more liberal-minded Jesuits. It is noteworthy that Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pontiff, is currently experiencing a virtual civil war within the catholic Church and Vatican hierarchy, spurred on by the likes of Bannon, Prince, former Pope Benedict, and other right-wing members of the College of Cardinals.
Bannon, Prince, and other far-rightists are now attempting to impose on their followers and fellow-travelers the same sort of “groupthink” Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels applied to Germany. In his seminal work, Yale University professor Irving Janis summed up “groupthink,” particularly how groups can, conversely to bringing out the best in people, also bring out the worst. Janis’s 1982 book, “Groupthink,” describes the phenomenon by quoting 19thcentury German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: “Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.” Europe’s current fascination and widespread support for political parties that were largely banned and shunned after the Nazi defeat in 1945 have created an environment where Bannon, Prince, and their collaborators find ready audiences for their extremism. In such climates, a strategy of tension permits a clash of civilizations, which is nirvana for the neo-cons and extreme right.
The recent deadly Christchurch mosque attacks appear to have been the first act in a strategy of tensions conflict being waged by the far-right. The Easter Sunday bombings of churches in Negombo, Batticaloa, and Colombo, Sri Lanka, as well as three five-star hotels in Colombo killing well over 300 people, were reportedly claimed by a hitherto unknown group called the National Thowheed Jamath or National Monotheism Organization. Sri Lanka’s government alleged the attacks were in retaliation for the Christchurch mosque bombings. Some things are known about the group claiming it carried out the attacks in Sri Lanka. It is not connected operationally to either the Islamic State or Al Qaeda, although the Islamic State made unverifiable claims of responsibility. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that New Zealand’s intelligence has no indication that the Sri Lanka attacks were in retaliation for the Sri Lanka attacks. It should be noted that New Zealand, as a member of the FIVE EYES signals intelligence alliance, has access to countless communications intercepts.
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