I edited a 1 hour 8 minute video and included only the English Translation here for quicker viewing so you don’t have to sit through the Japanese portion. This video ended up to be about 40 minutes… Part one is slow but part 2 and 3 are Great! Benjamin Fulford throws a curve ball at the VP of TEPCO. Original 1 hour 8 minute video here: Hosono Nuclear Accident Minister (with translator) Dec. 19, 2011 www.youtube.com Uploaded by MrJapanjp on Dec 19, 2011 www.youtube.com Goshi Hosono, Minister of State for the Nuclear Power Policy and Administration Minister for the Restoration from and Prevention of Nuclear Accident Zengo Aizawa, Executive Vice President of TEPCO Hiroshi Yamagata, Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has subjected the Japanese political system to a severe test that many have failed. However, Goshi Hosono, now serving concurrently as Minister of the Environment, Minister of State for the Nuclear Power Policy and Administration, and Minister for the Restoration from and prevention of Nuclear Accident is one of a handful of politicians who has seen his prominence rise and his career advanced. At an early point in the crisis, former Prime Minister Naoto Kan tapped Hosono to oversee TEPCO and the joint government press conferences explaining the state of the disaster to the media and therefore the world. In spite of the powerful emotions and fierce criticisms generated by the 21st century’s worst nuclear accident …
“Rectangle theory” illustrates why peace sustain after crises.The Making Peace rectangle theory of “Adam Curle”, leads us confess that “conflict is progression”; peacebuilding from multiplicity; function roles of expert contribute to sustain a “dynamic process” to accomplish short to long term goals. In “Fukushima disaster”, “radioactivity debris contaminate” earth, air, sea, fishery and agriculture, and food products. But we saw a picture of every nations how willing to give hand, biggest effort, to Japan from casualties to worldwide collaboration. The response attributes humanity to Thoku “earthquake and tsunami”; people affected at Fukushima I; deep concern over the developments at the “reactors” and risk of escalation; re-evaluation of existing and planned national “nuclear energy” programs; also a stable & strong political and economical Japan, is mutual benefit to world, as for power balance at Pacific.
Fukushima accident has led to trace amounts of radiation, including iodine-131 and cesium-134/137, being observed around the world. Western positioning tends to forgiveness to Japan in understanding “Chernobyl plant” was explosion while Fukushima is emission nature, though westerners are victims too in radioactivity. There acknowledges Japan’s long term collaboration with worldwide on education, trade, research, “global commission”, voluntary project, public health, & “financial aid” having achievements. In the U.S., monitoring was carried out by government agencies – the EPA, the Department of Energy and the Department of Health, found low levels of radiation. However critics still, Robert Alvarez, a nuclear policy scholar, remarked that “the ‘lack of transparency’ fueled mistrust”, crisis latent. Since Iodine-131 can be concentrated by leafy vegetables and in milk/cheese. CRIIRAD, a French NGO, warned on 7 April that children and pregnant women in Europe should limit consumption of these. Another cesium radioisotopes also found longer half-lives (2 years for Cs-134, 30 years for Cs-137) than I-131 (half-life of 8 days), the risk of persistence in the environment and of long-term accumulation in organisms is greater. After worldwide remedy, only low levels of cesium radioisotopes detected in China, and in CA, USA, provided – allowed level set by regulatory agencies can vary.The levels mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for milk are thousands of times higher than those mandated by the US Environmental Protection Agency for water, due to how long the product consumed & “thresholds of risk”. A marine oceano-grapher at the International Pacific Research Center expressed concern that current models are not adequate to predict how contaminated debris swept out of the reactor will behave. Thus plans were announced for a worldwide-scale study of the environmental and health effects of “radioactive contamination”.
More else, Japanese government first requested the assistance of the Russian floating water decontamination plant Landysh to process the “radioactive water” from the damaged reactors. Landysh was built by Russia with funding from Japan to process liquid wastes produced to “decommission nuclear submarines”. Afterwards, the French nuclear company AREVA to tackle the urgent problem of the large amounts of highly contaminated water, also invited “Veolia Water”, Silicon Valley startup Kurion, Toshiba, and Hitachi to treat about 110 000 cubic meters of highly contaminated water.
World media have argued that the Japanese nuclear regulatory system tends to side with and promote the nuclear industry, in which senior regulators accept high paying jobs at the companies they once oversaw. To protect their potential future position in the industry, regulators seek to avoid taking attitudes that, upset or embarrass the utilities they regulate. TEPCO’s position as a the largest electrical utility in Japan led it to be the most desirable position for “retiring regulators”, typically the most senior officials went to work at Tepco, while those of lower ranks ended up at smaller utilities according to the New York Times. In order to response western critics, in August 2011, several top energy officials were fired by the Japanese government, affected positions included the Vice-minister for Economy, Trade and Industry; head of the Nuclear & Industrial Safety Agency, head of the Agency for Natural Resources & Energy.
Close relation with “summit G8″, Japan achieved negotiation goals of drawing academics and researchers from across Japan with worldwide help, work with the Fukushima Prefectural Government on nuclear safety since May, 2011. The World Health Organization announced its intention to conduct continuing public health studies over the next 20 years after Fukushima disaster. [39] Japan’s rooted connection with western since enlightenment revival of 19th century “Meiji Ishin” that, process of conflicts establishing his power influence at Asia, and allied relationship with western, holding “responsive & adaptive capacity” with east and west, particularly strong “economic penetration”, let him overcome series of “political & economic crisis”, thus sustain peace with help of the world.
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www3.nhk.or.jp Key points (emphasis supplied): NHK: “Still nuclear experts say they don’t fully understand what’s going on inside [the reactors]. And they say that people at TEPCO don’t know either.” NHK Noriyaki Mizuno: “…there’s still much instability. The power plant is NOT yet completely safe and I question WHETHER IT CAN BE SAID THAT THE ACCIDENT HAS BEEN CONTAINED.” “At reactor #1 … they believe that most of the molten fuel has fallen to the bottom of the containment vessel WHERE THERE’S NO THERMOMETER. The amount of water has NOT been measured accurately with the water gauge and [the water level] has only been GUESSED. Some of the molten fuel could be EXPOSED from the water.” “As for reactor #2, in November they suspected that the plant had gone CRITICAL AGAIN with CONTINUOUS nuclear fission occurring. This incident underscored how little is known about the state of the molten fuel still. So IT’S HARD TO SAY IT IS SAFE.” “IF THE FUEL RODS ARE TO MELT AGAIN [???????!] then radioactive substances and radioactive gas would be released” Fukushima links (Fukushima Daiichi live and a youtube compressed version): www.tepco.co.jp lucaswhitefieldhixson.com www.youtube.com atmc.jp www.tepco.co.jp www.tepco.co.jp TEPCO PRESS RELEASES DIRECTLY FROM TEPCO www.tepco.co.jp Radiation measured in water and air at Fukushima plant: www9.nhk.or.jp Daily food random testing results (Japanese only) www.maff.go.jp cryptome.org Nuclear News and Updates: ex-skf.blogspot.com enenews.com … Video Rating: 5 / 5
Overview the “Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster”, is a series of equipment failures, “reactors meltdowns”, and releases of radioactive materials at the “Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant”, following the 9.0 magnitude “Thoku earthquake and tsunami” on 11 Mar 2011. It is the largest nuclear accident since the “Russia Chernobyl” disaster, but more complex as multiple reactors meltdown & “spent fuel pools expose” involved. The plant comprises 6 separate boiling water reactors maintained by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (“TEPCO”). The plant was protected by a seawall designed to withstand a 5.7 m (19 ft) tsunami but not the 15 m (49 ft) maximum wave which arrived about 47 minutes after the “earthquake”. The entire plant was flooded, including low-lying generators and electrical switchgear in reactor basements and external pumps for supplying “cooling seawater”. The connection to the electrical grid was broken as Tsunami destroyed the power lines. All power for cooling was lost and reactors started to overheat,worsely the cooling effect water leaking & approach 3 mths into sea.
“Radiation threatens human life”, alerts every nation every person, constitutes crisis, point of conflict; negotiation & collaboration needed.
Several parties disputed the Japanese government classifications, arguing that the situation was more severe than they were admitting at the time. The “Wall Street Journal” stated that Japan’s “NISA” would make any decision on raising the level. They gave INES level 6 to the Kyshtym disaster (Soviet Union, 1957); level 7 to “Chernobyl (Soviet Union, 1986)”, yet nearby area at accidental Chernobyl, declared “no-man’s-land”; while Fukushima, towns found at 60 to 70 kilometers away. They also gave level 5 to the “Windscale fire” (United Kingdom, 1957); the “Lucens reactor” (Switzerland, 1969); “Three Mile Island” (United States, 1979); and the “Goi
See the full episode at video.pbs.org Coming January 17: FRONTLINE examines the implications of the Fukushima accident for US nuclear safety, and asks how this disaster will affect the future of nuclear energy around the world. It’s been almost a year since a devastating earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, leaving the country’s once popular energy program in shambles. In response, Germany decided to abandon nuclear energy entirely. Should the US follow suit? FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O’Brien examines the implications of the Fukushima accident for US nuclear safety, and asks how this disaster will affect the future of nuclear energy around the world. In particular, he visits one emerging battleground: The controversial relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear plant, located only 38 miles from Manhattan. What lessons can be learned from the disaster in Japan? Watch on air and online beginning Tuesday, January 17th at 10 pm ET on PBS (check local listings). to.pbs.org
Japanese MP Yasuhiro Sonoda has drunk water collected from the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, after reporters challenged him to prove it was safe. He appeared nervous and his hands shook as he downed a glass during a televised news conference after journalists repeatedly queried the safety of the decontamination procedure and use of the water. The water he drank was taken from two reactors. It is decontaminated before being used for tasks such as watering plants. Mr Sonoda had recently announced that the decontamination and decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi plant may take over 30 years. www.bbc.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk Video Rating: 4 / 5
A short documentary on the creation of the cover (KIMONO) for reactor unit 1. In Japanese – English Translation up in a few days. Detailed Report from start of project found here : www.youtube.com TEPCO 111028_1.wmv Video Rating: 5 / 5
Speaker: Robert Budnitz, LBNL The talk will describe (technically, but in laymen’s terms) what happened at the Fukushima reactors during and after the disastrous March 11 earthquake and tsunami, what the radioactive releases have been and what they mean, and what the path forward seems to be at the site. The potential implications that these events might have upon the future of nuclear power in general will also be discussed.
Technical details of the Fukushima accidents presented by a senior nuclear scientist for the general public Video Rating: 0 / 5
David Lochbaum (UCS) Lists The primary cause of the accidents as loss of power. He explains why the diesel generators and the service water pumps failed, and the battery backups ran out of power at about 6 hours into the accident. David also explains that a contributing cause was the lack of any procedures the reactor operators had to deal with time frame accidents beyond the short time frames assumed. He refers to an August, 2003 NRC study showing the probabilities of a core meltdown at US nuclear reactors. Seabrook Station is at 22%; LaSalle in Illinois has an 80% chance of catastrophic failure in the event of a blackout. The NRC has no procedures (ZERO) for operators to deal with any spent fuel pool accidents. Video Rating: 5 / 5
The devastating earthquake-tsunami in Japan has sent the whole country into an emergency and hazardous condition. Reportedly, 9,400 people were dead and 13,200 other people are missing. Most disastrously, the history-making tsunami brought along with the most serious nuclear accidents in Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants – the world’s most devastating nuclear disaster since Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. The nuclear meltdown and explosion have resulted in radiation soaring to the highest level in Japan. In such a condition, fifty workers, who also known as the “Fukushima 50″, are risking their lives exposed to dangerous levels of radiation in order to stabilize a power plant and prevent the worst nuclear disaster. Recently, the Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has released a series of images of these fifty Japanese heroes.
Japanese workers, as prided as Fukushima Heroes, try to fix the stricken plant.
Workers are collecting data in the control room for Unit 1 and Unit 2.
These men are working on the electric power lanes for Units 5 and Unit 6. All efforts are being made to restore electricity at the plant.
Workers are trying to cool down the plant by water on March 23.
The whole plant in picture
Another worker is watching at the gauges in the control room at the plant. The gauges are for Unit 1 and Unit 2. All workers must wear rubber suits to protect their bodies from radiation.
Some other workers are working outside to connect the lines in order to supply electric power for Unit 3 and Unit 4.
The picture shows the damaged security gate of Unit 1 and Unit 2. In general, most areas of the plant are destroyed by the terrible earthquake-tsunami.
Black smoking is rising from the Unit 3 of the plant, which orders an emergency and immediate evacuation from the plant.
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How To Protect Your Family And Home From Nuclear Radiation Ultimate Compendium On How To Protect Yourself From Nuclear Radiation, Nuclear Fallout, Environmental Contamination. Includes Interviews With World Class Experts, All The Information You And Your Family May Need To Avoid Radiation Poisoning. How To Protect Your Family And Home From Nuclear Radiation
Nuclear Engineer, Arnie Gundersen, discusses why TEPCO’s announcement of an increased accident severity level should not be a surprise. He also discusses similarities among the Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima nuclear accidents and how Governments are once again limiting public access to accurate radiation dose information. Lastly, Gundersen responds to the overwhelming number of email inquires regarding the Fukushima accident. fairewinds.com The Intel Hub theintelhub.comFAIR USE NOTICE This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 USC section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law. Video Rating: 4 / 5
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