Aug 14, 2020
Nearly half of Japan’s 47 prefectures said they are opposed to or held negative views about hosting a deep-underground disposal site for high-level radioactive nuclear waste, a Kyodo News survey showed Friday.
None expressed a favorable stance. The result signals further woes for the central government in its attempt to find a permanent geological disposal repository.
Little progress has been made since the process to find local governments willing to host one started in 2002, due mainly to opposition from local residents.
The survey was sent to all prefectures in July, with additional interviews conducted depending on their answers.
While 16 prefectures such as Fukushima, Kanagawa and Okinawa clearly opposed hosting a site, seven others including Hokkaido, Kyoto and Nagasaki also expressed negative views.
Most of the others did not make their positions clear.
Of the total 23 prefectures that opposed or showed negative views, seven host nuclear power plants.
“We are already undertaking a certain amount of social responsibility by hosting nuclear plants and providing energy,” Niigata Prefecture said in its response.
Fukui Prefecture said, “We are generating power. Nuclear waste disposal should be handled by others.”
Meanwhile, Hokkaido mentioned its existing ordinance to prevent nuclear waste from being brought into the northernmost main island, a view that contradicts the relatively positive stance held by one of its municipalities. The town of Suttsu said Thursday it is considering signing up for preliminary research into its land to gauge its suitability for hosting a disposal site.
On Friday, however, its mayor, Haruo Kataoka, said the town has been asked by the prefecture not to apply for the preliminary study.
Before Suttsu, the town of Toyo in Kochi Prefecture applied for the study in 2007, but it later withdrew the application following strong protests by local residents.
In the Kyodo News poll, the western prefecture expressed opposition to hosting a disposal site, saying it faces the need to take measures against a possible major earthquake in the region.
For permanent disposal, high-level radioactive waste, produced as a result of the process of extracting uranium and plutonium from spent fuel, must be stored more than 300 meters underground so that it cannot impact human lives or the environment.
Elsewhere in the world, Finland and Sweden are the only countries to have decided on final disposal sites.
Fukushima 311 Watchdogs 
Our interstitial tissue, is full of microplasics. In crucial heart muscle that keeps us alive.
We live in towns and cities, full of smoke and car exhausts- residue, that we constantly breathe. Aromatic hydrocarbons are intensely cardiotoxic. Fluro and chrorocarbon gasses that cause the heart to twitch lile a frog being electrocuted. Freon.
The Other poisonous gasses and compounds. Bitumen. Methane, radon. Extreme cardiotoxins We have to have a heart to pump blood to our bodies fro respiration or we cease to exist as organisms.
Chagas is a climate change disease-parasite. Chagas literally eats the heart alive from the chronic inflammation and feed of the the parasite on the heart muscle. Chagas is rampant in the southern usa all the way to maryland, to indiana, to colorado in nevada, to oregon. To s illinois to nebrasca. Dr hines says their are of millions of cases of it un the usa. Chagas is in the blood supply. It is as bad or worse than malaria, in equitorial countries and subtropical areas in s asia africa, s america latin america.. Chagas is covered up. It is endemic and growing. There id denial about chagas, like fukushima. Like covid.
Lingering cardiovascular damage from covid in so-called asymptomatic cases.
Cesium137 gets in the heart, posing as potassium and eats the heart alive, in minute, trace amounts .
Ccesium 137 is in north america from fukushima.Cesiuum 137 is not simply in air filters in tokyo post fukushima, or europe post chernobyl.
It is a long lingering gamma bbeta emitter. It is in america from industrial waste. Rad med waste. Fukushima. The crummy old beat up reactors and thousands of tons, of hilevel nuclear waste, in america.
From bomb testing.. America is in denial. It is approaching a tipping point, that will be more visible than covid overflows, in city hospital icus soon. Our hearts are crucial to our survival as organisms.
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Abe is gone but fukushima and the old beatup reactors in japan, usa, russia, s korea, europe are not. M100s of thousands of nuke weapons. millions of tons of nuke waste.
There are 96 old reactors most older than 30 yo. now they are almost completelely un supervised, because of trump. few have backup generators that work.. none have been reinforced since fukushima . many like san onofre and Columbia generating project by hanford are in bad earthquake zones and hurricane zones.
2-3 hurricanes and tropicals storm has hit the gulf coast and florida every uear for 6 year close.to.nukes in teir.south and.east
Nukes have huge fuel pools. A hurricane a year in the east coast.
There are several nukes on the gulf cost, east coast , on the florida coast. Grave hurricane risks now w global warming. Grave flooding risks in the midwest nukes.
Years of hi level waste accumlated by them. There are holes in the containment.Like at fermi and Ohio.
They are beatup and old. They have holes in them. Little backup. Rusted.old diesel genrators that do not work.
They have years of hi level waste by them, that can catch fire easy. Each reactor and fuel pool site, will put the equivalent-fallout, of 10 or 20 thousand dirty nuke bombs into the atmosphere of the usa, if there is a major nuke catastrophe at those facilities.
The biosphere cannot take much more of this. One of the-reactors at fukushima was a mox-mixed oxide plutonium-uranium reactor. It had tons.of.mox in it that went into the biosphere when it had a nuclear explosion. It was a nuclear explosion. They lie about that happening, at nuke plants. There was also a fuel fire . Criticalities happened at Chernobyl and sellafield
A hurricane damaged rezctor at brunswick, a few years ago in carolina.
There have been three major nuclear catastrophes since trump came in , along w the ongoing fukushima fiasco.
1. There was The santa susana radionuclide wildfire, in ventura that recontaminated malibu, ventura and n la.
2. The inl Idaho National Laboratory-pyrophic radionuclide wilde fire burnt up 900, 000 acre of land with 50 old reactors and massive amts of nuclear waste. Hi level radionuclides just burned into the air.
3. The nuclear missile-atomic explosion in russia, was cause by trump abrogating nuclear treaties and supercharging the nuclear arms race.
If even 10 nuclear bombs senpnated in the wprld ot would destabalize and set off dozens of beat up reactors around the world. The fallout, will be the equivalent of 500,000 bombs. That will be it for life on earth.
Helen caldicott recently put up an article on twtter about how low level radiation increases cardiovascular damage across the board in men.Tough hard times. covid19 heart damage. cesium 137. horrible.diets. genome instability.
Democrats Must Demolish Trump’s Delusional Law-Breaking Dystopia
By Ralph Nader
The daily tweeting, lying King, the man who boasted about abusing women, and behaving as a sexual predator, is a ruler who brings out the worst from this country. Trump deliberately divides America and stokes conflict and disruption. Trump is a reality denier and chaotic bungler who is aiding and abetting the climate crisis and preventing scientists and public health managers from controlling COVID-19, the cause of the worst global pandemic in our lifetimes. He is also blocking relief for a crashing economy and still escapes accountability.
The Democrats are not matching Trump’s own or his Party’s propaganda. In 2004, author, and former prominent Republican political analyst Kevin Phillips, argued that the Democrats go for the capillaries while the GOP goes for the jugular. By not going full force against dictator Trump, the Democrats are not overwhelmingly countering the most criminally, unconstitutionally culpable, vulnerable, and dislikable president in US history. With just over two months until the November 3rd election, a strong, independent, civic drive to oppose and vote out Trump/Pence is required. Standing on the sidelines hoping that the Democrats will retire the failed gambling czar didn’t work in 2016 and it won’t work in 2020 either.
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