This guy William Milberry lives in Japan, and goes around to supermarkets to point out what food could be potentially unsafe – Worth a watch…..
Random food checks in Japan – Is the food safe? 
The Medical Implications of Fukushima, Chernobyl and the Nuclear Age 
Fukushima air to stay radioactive in 2022 
Pupils return to school in Fukushima’s shadow 
Arnie Gundersen speak on current status of Fukushima reactors 
Russia Stunned After Japanese Plan To Evacuate 40 Million Revealed 
Japanese professor says Fukushima radiation leaks are harming children’s health 
IAEA – Fukushima: One Year On 
Dental x-rays linked to brain tumours 
1,535 fuel rods, no protection! 
Fukushima update from 3 March 2012 
SolarIMG: Fukushima Update With Arnie Gundersen 
Controversy over Japan food aid from tainted areas 
Fukushima radiation so high – nothing can fix it 
Radiation levels higher than expected at Fukushima 
The Medical Implications of Fukushima, Chernobyl and the Nuclear Age
Dr Helen Caldicott talks about the medical implications of Fukushima, Chernobyl and the nuclear age. She begins with Fukushima and the very high probability of more incidents involving high levels of radioactivity being released into the atmosphere. This really does suck if nothing is done soon…….
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Fukushima air to stay radioactive in 2022
Original story by Jiji from Japan times online
FUKUSHIMA — A decade from now, airborne radiation levels in some parts of Fukushima Prefecture are still expected to be dangerous at above 50 millisieverts a year, a government report says.
The report, which contains projections through March 2032, was presented by trade minister Yukio Edano Sunday to leaders of Futaba, one of the towns that host the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
The report includes radiation forecasts for 2012 to 2014, and for 2017, 2022 and 2032, based on the results of monitoring in November last year. It was compiled to help municipalities draw up recovery and repopulation programs for the nuclear disaster.
The forecasts do not take into account experimental decontamination efforts.
Earlier this month, the government designated areas where annual radiation dosage exceeds 50 millisieverts as those likely to remain off-limits to evacuees in the near term.
The report said that annual radiation levels in March 2022 will probably exceed 50 millisieverts in some of the areas, including Futaba and Okuma, the other town that hosts the radiation-leaking plant.
Pupils return to school in Fukushima’s shadow
Original story by McCurry in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 April 2012
Japan has lifted evacuation orders for some villages just outside the 12-mile exclusion zone, but life is still dominated by radiation and the nuclear power plant.
Kawauchi has welcomed back its youngest residents with music, applause and speeches – but not a single reference to radiation – as the village, located in the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, took a cautious first step towards post-meltdown normality.
Teachers and parents fought back tears when pupils from the local nursery, primary and middle schools began a new term recently, more than a year after the nuclear accident forced them out of their homes.
While workers at the plant struggle to contain thousands of tonnes of radioactive water and begin a decommissioning operation expected to last decades, the government earlier this month lifted evacuation orders in three locations just outside the 12-mile no-go zone.
In the coming weeks, 16,000 of the more than 100,000 people displaced by the nuclear crisis could be able to return to their old neighbourhoods, although they will not be allowed to stay overnight until their homes have been decontaminated.
“There were times when we never thought we would be able to return and get on with our lives again,” Yoshinobu Ishii, the head of Kawauchi board of education, told parents and children. “There are only a few of us here, and I know you are missing your friends who are still living in temporary accommodation. These things take time. And remember, the whole of Japan wants us to succeed.”
The village of Tamura has also lifted its evacuation order, and Minamisoma is expected to shortly do the same for parts of the city closest to the power plant.
Arnie Gundersen speak on current status of Fukushima reactors
This is a recording of Arnie Gundersen on a radio show talking about the Fukushima reactors and “what if” scenarios of what could be in the near or distant future. It depends what the japanese do, and how they handle the removal of the fuel rods from reactors to a safer location, and how many earthquakes and how severe they are as to how that effects these reactors……..What a mix of odds….
Russia Stunned After Japanese Plan To Evacuate 40 Million Revealed
Original story By: Sorcha Faal, April 15, 2012
A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Ministry on the planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands during the next fortnight states that Russian diplomats were “stunned” after being told by their Japanese counterparts that upwards of 40 million of their peoples were in “extreme danger” of life threatening radiation poisoning and could very well likely be faced with forced evacuations away from their countries eastern most located cities…including the world’s largest one, Tokyo.
The Kuril Islands are located in Russia’s Sakhalin Oblast region and stretch approximately 1,300 km (810 miles) northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands and many more minor rocks. It consists of Greater Kuril Ridge and Lesser Kuril Ridge, all of which were captured by Soviet Forces in the closing days of World War II from the Japanese.
The “extreme danger” facing tens of millions of the Japanese peoples is the result of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster that was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.
According to this report, Japanese diplomats have signaled to their Russian counterparts that the returning of the Kuril Islands to Japan is “critical”as they have no other place to resettle so many people that would, in essence, become the largest migration of human beings since the 1930’s when Soviet leader Stalin forced tens of millions to resettle Russia’s far eastern regions.
Important to note, this report continues, are that Japanese diplomats told their Russian counterparts that they were, also, “seriously considering” an offer by China to relocate tens of millions of their citizens to the Chinese mainland to inhabit what are called the “ghost cities,” built for reasons still unknown and described, in part, by London’s Daily Mail News Service in their 18 December 2010 article titled “The Ghost Towns Of China: Amazing Satellite Images Show Cities Meant To Be Home To Millions Lying Deserted” that says:
Foreign Ministry experts in this report note that should Japan accept China’s offer, the combined power of these two Asian peoples would make them the largest super-power in human history with an economy larger than that of the United States and European Union combined and able to field a combined military force of over 200 million.
To how dire the situation is in Japan was recently articulated by Japanese diplomat Akio Matsumura who warned that the disaster at the Fukushimanuclear plant may ultimately turn into an event capable of extinguishing all life on Earth.
Japanese professor says Fukushima radiation leaks are harming children’s health
Original story by Charlie Smith, April 13, 2012
A media professor at Akia University in Japan has claimed that children in his country are suffering serious medical problems as a result of last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster.
In an interview on WorkWeek Radio (which works with Project Censored), Prof. Akira “Lazy Cat” Murakami linked the leak of radiation to kids have suffering nosebleeds, skin diseases, short tempers, and cardiovascular diseases.
Murakami said that the Japanese mainstream media is not covering the impacts, but this information is being disseminated to Japanese people through cyberspace.
“Our food regulations are quite loose,” Murakami said. “We have only spot inspections.”
He called on Americans to do whatever they can to shut down remaining nuclear reactors.
“This planet could not afford another Chernobyl or another Fukushima,” he said.
Radio host Steve Zeltzer conducted the interview, which is available below:
IAEA – Fukushima: One Year On
11 March 2012. One year after the nuclear accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Denis Flory, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, discusses what the IAEA has learned from the accident. He also talks about the causes of the accident and what could have been done to prevent it or limit the consequences.
Dental x-rays linked to brain tumours
Original story from ABC science April 10, 2012
People who get regular dental x-rays are more likely to suffer a type of brain tumour, according to new research, suggesting that yearly exams may not be best for most patients.
The study in the US journal Cancer showed people diagnosed with meningioma who reported having a yearly bitewing exam were 1.4 times to 1.9 times as likely as a healthy control group to have developed such tumours.
A bitewing exam involves an x-ray film being held in place by a tab between the teeth.
Also, people who reported getting a yearly panorex exam – in which an x-ray is taken outside the mouth and shows all the teeth on one film – were 2.7 to three times more likely to develop cancer, said the study.
A meningioma is a tumour that forms in the membrane around the brain or spinal cord. Most of the time these tumours are benign and slow growing, but they can lead to disability or life-threatening conditions.
The research, led by Elizabeth Claus of the Yale University School of Medicine, was based on data from 1433 US patients who were diagnosed with the tumours between the ages of ages 20 and 79 years.
1,535 fuel rods, no protection!
Original story from http://akiomatsumura.com 3 April 2012
Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, was invited to speak at the Public Hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, on the Fukushima nuclear power plants accident. Before the Committee, Ambassador Murata strongly stated that if the crippled building of reactor unit 4—with 1,535 fuel rods in the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground—collapses, not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel rods, located some 50 meters from reactor 4. In both cases the radioactive rods are not protected by a containment vessel; dangerously, they are open to the air.
This would certainly cause a global catastrophe like we have never before experienced. He stressed that the responsibility of Japan to the rest of the world is immeasurable. Such a catastrophe would affect us all for centuries. Ambassador Murata informed us that the total numbers of the spent fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi site excluding the rods in the pressure vessel is 11,421 (396+615+566+1,535+994+940+6375).
I asked top spent-fuel pools expert Mr. Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy, for an explanation of the potential impact of the 11,421 rods.
