Hollande met Fukushima dans vos assiettes

12 mai 2014

Le gouvernement favorise l'importation d'aliments 

radioactifs Japonais

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Communiqué de presse conjoint franco-japonais à l'occasion de la visite du Premier ministre Shinzo Abe en France (Chapitre 2 paragraphe 13) - 5 mai 2014

« Concernant le nucléide radioactif dans les produits alimentaires et les fourrages provenant du Japon, le Japon se félicite de la compréhension de la France pour une révision des mesures de restriction de l'UE fondée sur des données scientifiques et le « CODEX pour les contaminants et les toxines dans les aliments »

Ou plus simplement formulé : « Hollande met Fukushima dans vos assiettes "
Alors que les inquiétudes vont crescendo à propos du traité transatlantique et des effets néfastes que les nombreuses clauses en tous genres que ce dernier va autoriser, et ce au nom d'une coopération commerciale qui va officialiser notre servitude éternelle aux Etats-Unis, on découvre que la santé et l'avenir de millions de personnes ont été sacrifiés au bénéfice d'un accord France-Japon qui légitimise ainsi une tolérance accrue de la radioactivité présente dans les aliments en provenance du... Japon !
Alors que le Japon est incapable de gérer les suites de la catastrophe de Fukushima, il faut donc comprendre qu'au nom des débouchés commerciaux, la France accepterait donc un seuil de radioactivité plus élevé pour les produits alimentaires importés au mépris des risques sanitaires.

Communiqué de presse conjoint franco-japonais à l'occasion de la visite du Premier ministre Shinzo Abe en France

A l'invitation de M. François HOLLANDE, président de la République française, M. Shinzo ABE, Premier ministre du Japon, a effectué une visite en France du 4 au 6 mai 2014. Cette visite s'inscr...

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Fukushima: Playing With Nuclear Fire

Fukushima: Mass Fish Deaths All Over

Mass Fish Deaths: Millions Have Been Found Dead All Over The World In The Past Month

 By Michael Snyder, on May 20th, 2014

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Millions of fish are suddenly dying all over the planet.  In fact, there have been dozens of mass fish death events reported in the past month alone.  So why is this happening?  Why are fish dying in unprecedented numbers all over the world?  When more than six tons of fish died in Marina Del Ray over the weekend, it made headlines all over the United States.  But the truth is that what just happened off the southern California coast is just the tip of the iceberg.  In 2014, mass fish die-offs have pretty much become a daily event globally.  Individually, each event could perhaps be dismissed as an anomaly, but as you will see below when they are all put together into one list it truly is rather stunning.  So is there a reason why so many fish are dying?  Is there something that connects these mass fish death events?  Has something about our environment changed?  The following are just a few examples of the mass fish death reports that have been coming in day after day from all over the globe…

HBO Video: Genetic passport for radiation victims

Debrief: Genetic Passport

Deaths and mutations ”increased sharply’ from exposure to Fukushima

New study reveals deaths and mutations ”increased sharply’ from exposure to Fukushima contamination, “especially at low doses” — ‘Small’ levels of cesium may be ‘significantly toxic’ — Smithsonian: “In other words, things don’t look good for the animals living around Fukushima”

Published: May 15th, 2014 at 3:14 pm ET By ENENews  Email Article

Smithsonian Magazine, May 14, 2014: Even Tiny Amounts of Radioactive Food Made Caterpillars Become Abnormal Butterflies [...] Researchers in Japan [...] discovered, even a small amount of radiation is too much. [...] The scientists collected plant material from around Fukushima and fed it to pale grass blue butterfly caterpillars. When the caterpillars turned into butterflies, they suffered from mutations and were more likely to die early [... even if they] had only eaten a small amount of artificial caesium [...] In other words, things don’t look good for the animals living around Fukushima.

Nature — Scientific Reports (pdf), Published May 15, 2014: [We] examined possible relationships between the dose of ingested cesium per larva and the mortality and abnormality rates. Both the mortality and abnormality rates increased sharply, especially at low doses [...] the mortality and abnormality rates increased sharply, especially at low doses. Additionally, there seemed to be no threshold level below which no biological response could be detected. [...] the dose-response data suggests that the relatively small level of artificial cesium from the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP may be significantly toxic to some individuals in butterfly populations [...] the half lethal [i.e. LD50, amount that will kill 50% of a test subjects] dose [is 1.9 Bq per larva] and the half abnormal dose [is 0.76 Bq per larva] [...] relatively small [levels] of artificial cesium from the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP may be significantly toxic to some individuals in butterfly populations [...] we assert that the half lethal and abnormal doses we obtained were quite high. [...] it should be noted that we sampled contaminated leaves from Fukushima City, which many people inhabit as though nothing had happened [...] Implications of the half lethal and abnormal doses we obtained in the present study will impact future discussions on the effects of radioactive exposure on other organisms, including humans. [...] In conclusion, it is important to recognize the risk of internal radiation exposure due to ingested radioactive cesium, at least for the pale grass blue butterfly, and likely for certain other organisms living in the polluted area, possibly including humans. [...]

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Published: May 15th, 2014 at 3:14 pm ET By ENENews

Depleted Environment, Depleted Lives

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Depleted Environment, Depleted Lives

Uranium Weapons Still Making Money, Wreaking Havoc

by JOHN LAFORGE

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The US Army has awarded General Dynamics a $12 million contract to deconstruct and dispose of 78,000 depleted uranium anti-tank shells. The Pentagon’s May 6 announcement calls for “demilitarization” of the aging shells, as newer depleted uranium rounds are added to the US arsenal.

In the perpetually profitable business of war production, General Dynamics originally produced and sold some of the 120-millimeter anti-tank rounds to the Army. One of the richest weapons builders on earth, General Dynamics has 95,000 employees and sells its wares in 40 countries on six continents.

The International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons in Manchester, England, reports the armor-piercing shells to be disassembled are thought to be the large 105-millimeter and 120-millimeter anti-tank rounds.

Depleted uranium, or DU, weapons are made of extremely dense uranium-238. More than 700,000 tons of DU has been left as waste in the US alone from the production of nuclear weapons and nuclear reactor fuel rods. The urankum-238 is left when fissionable uranium-235 is separated for H-bombs and reactor fuel. DU is only ‘depleted’ of this U-235. It is still a radioactive and toxic heavy metal. A tax and ecological liability, DU is given away free to weapons builders.

The Pentagon is replacing older DU shells in spite of international appeals for a moratorium on their use. The military is set to buy 2,500 large anti-tank rounds just this year at a cost of $30 million or over $10,000 each from Alliant Tech Systems, formerly of Minneapolis.
In 1991, during its 40-day, 1,000-sorties-per-day bombardment, between 300 and 800 tons of DU was blasted into Iraq by US forces. Another estimated 170 tons were used in the 2003 bombing and annexation. Toxic, radioactive contamination left from the use of these weapons (the DU burns and turns to dusty aerosol on impact) has been linked to the skyrocketing incidence of birth abnormalities in southern Iraq and to the Gulf War Syndrome among tens of thousands of US combat veterans.

After the US/NATO bombardment of Kosovo in 1999, our DU weapons were discovered to be spiked with plutonium and other isotopes. This news created a political uproar in Europe and led to the admission by the US Energy Department that “the entire US stock of depleted uranium was contaminated” with plutonium, americium, neptunium and technetium. United Nations investigators in Kosovo found sites hit with DU to be poisoned with all four isotopes. The Nation magazine reported that about 150,000 tons uranium-238 was dirtied with plutonium-239 and neptunium-237 and that “some apparently found its way to the Persian Gulf and Balkans battlefields.” (Robert Alvarez, “DU at Home,” The Nation, April 9, 2001, p. 24)

European papers shouting “Plutonium!” in headlines saw US and NATO officials rushing to microphones to claim with straight faces that their shells contained “mere traces of plutonium, not enough to cause harm,” and that the highly radioactive materials “were not relevant to soldiers’ health because of their minute quantities.” But plutonium is 200,000 times more radioactive than U-238 and ingesting less than 27 micrograms of plutonium-239 a millionth of an ounce — will cause lung cancer.

(One indication of just how poisonous these weapons are is that in 30 years of resisting nuclear weapons and the war system, the only ‘not guilty of trespass’ verdict I ever won from a jury followed a protest at Alliant Tech over its DU program. The jury agreed with four of us that since poison weapons are banned by the Geneva and Hague Conventions our action was an attempt at crime prevention.)

Long-term disposal plans for the uranium from 78,000 shells were not outlined by the Army. Uranium in the shells is often alloyed with titanium or molybdenum, and if these metals are not recycled, they could become part of our vast stockpile of DU, requiring indefinite storage as intermediate-level radioactive waste. Other parts of the munitions are currently disposed of as low-level rad’ waste in spite of the plutonium content.

John LaForge works for Nukewatch, edits its Quarterly, and lives at the Plowshares Land Trust out of Luck, Wisconsin.

Fukushima’s Cesium 14,000 times the Hiroshima Bomb

Fukushima’s Cesium-137 levels ‘50% higher’ than previously estimated

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Published time: May 10, 2014 10:46

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This handout picture taken by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on April 13, 2014 shows leakage of radioactive water from a plastic tank (yellow) at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture. (AFP Photo)

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The amount of Cesium-137 leaked from the Fukushima nuclear power plant could be worse than expected, a Japanese research team has concluded. They believe 50 percent more of the radioactive material could have escaped into the atmosphere and seawater.

The original estimate of 13,600 terabecquerels was made by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the power station. However, a new report by Japanese researchers estimates that between 17,500 and 20,500 terabecquerels have been released, which is 50 percent higher than originally thought.

Michio Aoyama, a professor at Fukushima University’s Institute of Environmental Radioactivity who is part of the team, told Kyodo News that TEPCO is “underestimating” the amount of Cesium-137 that was released into the atmosphere and later fell into the sea.

Cesium-137 is a radioactive isotope produced by nuclear fission. However, it is problematic due to its ability to spread easily as it is highly soluble. It is also very harmful to humans and can cause cancer, while it has a half-life of around 30 years.

The team announced its findings at a conference in Vienna and it will come as another blow concerning their handling of the accident, which happened in 2011 after being triggered by a tsunami, following an earthquake in the Pacific Ocean off the Japanese coast.

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Three weeks ago, the manager of the plant, Akira Ono, said attempts to plug the leaks of radioactive water had failed.

“It's embarrassing to admit, but there are certain parts of the site where we don't have full control,” Ono told Reuters. Last year, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe attempted to assure the world that the situation at the stricken nuclear power plant was under control.

The Fukushima plant contains radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 68 years ago. The main task now is to try and limit the fallout from the disaster, with Aoyama saying, “the release of radioactive cesium-137 has a big impact on the ocean,”since the Fukushima nuclear complex is near the coast.

TEPCO has consistently faced contaminated water leaks at the Fukushima plant. Water has to be pumped over the facilities’ stricken reactors to keep them from overheating, but this process creates large quantities of contaminated water which has to be stored in tanks on the site.

Ono acknowledged to the media that in TEPCO’s rush to deal with the stricken facility following the earthquake-triggered tsunami in 2011, the company may have made mistakes.

“It may sound odd, but this is the bill we have to pay for what we have done in the past three years,” he said. “But we were pressed to build tanks in a rush and may have not paid enough attention to quality. We need to improve quality from here.”

TEPCO will have to improve the quality of the tanks so the plant can survive the next 30 to 40 years of the decommissioning process, Ono said.

Fukushima worker files historic lawsuit over radiation exposure

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A worker at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has filed the first lawsuit from an employee against plant operator TEPCO due to high levels of radiation he was exposed to during the initial days of the plant’s 2011 disaster.

“I wish [the utility] had informed us of possible risks in advance,” Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun cites the 48-year-old man as saying at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday. “I want [operator Tokyo Electric Power Company] to create safer conditions for workers because the decommissioning of the reactors will not finish anytime soon.”

The claimant says he was unnecessarily exposed to excessively high levels of radiation due to negligence on the part of TEPCO. He is seeking 11 million yen ($110,000) in compensation from TEPCO. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Fukushima District Court.

“After carefully examining the contents of the demand and his arguments, we will sincerely respond to the claim,” TEPCO said in a statement Wednesday.

The worker, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Shinichi, due to the social stigma of upsetting the social order in Japan, was part of a team sent to lay electric cables in one of the reactors 13 days after the disaster.

Three of the workers waded through contaminated water up to their ankles and were exposed to up to 180 millisieverts of radiation. They were later hospitalized, Asahi Shimbun reports.

Although Shinichi did not personally walk through the radioactive water, he worked near a contaminated puddle for 90 minutes. He estimated that he received a radiation dose of at least 20 millisieverts at that time, though he has so far suffered no serious health issues.

During a 2012 interview, he claimed that TEPCO should have known about the high levels of radiation and warned the workers, AP reports. His exposure exceeded official limits, which forced him to stop working at the site.

In April, 79 sailors sued TEPCO for a total of $1 billion, alleging the company lied about the high level of radiation in the area where they were carrying out a humanitarian mission following the tsunami that sparked the nuclear crisis over three years ago.

The sailors, dozens of whom have suffered cancer and one who had a child born with birth defects, says they were being covered in radiation despite the company’s repeated claims there was no danger.

TEPCO, in turn, attempted to blame the US military for the levels of radiation the naval personnel were exposed to.

“It’s wholly implausible that military commanders in charge of thousands of personnel and armed with some of the world’s most sophisticated equipment, relied instead only on the press releases and public statements of a foreign electric utility company,” TEPCO said in a statement.

The sailors had previously sued TEPCO in 2012, though a US judge dismissed the claim because it named the Japanese government as a defendant, putting it out of his jurisdiction. The amended suit only mentions TEPCO.

Chernobyl, gli effetti: animali con mutazioni e tumori

Radiazioni Chernobyl, gli effetti: animali con mutazioni e tumori (video)

Pubblicato il 8 maggio 2014 07:00 | Ultimo aggiornamento: 7 maggio 2014 16:27

di Veronica Nicosia

Radiazioni Chernobyl, gli effetti: animali con mutazioni e tumori

ROMA – Pettirossi e passeri, rondini, farfalle, cicale, pipistrelli, ragni e topi. Come sono cambiati glianimali dei boschi e delle foreste vicine a Chernobyl a 28 anni dall’incidente nucleare? Alla domanda risponde Timothy Mousseau, ricercatore e biologo della University of South Carolina, che armato di rivelatore di radiazioni gira nei boschi vicino a Novoshelpelychi, inUcraina.

I livelli di radiazione nelle foreste sono ben oltre la norma, basti pensare che in 10 giorni nei boschisi è esposti a livelli di radiazione pari a quelli che un’altra persona riceve in un intero anno negli Stati Uniti. L’esposizione prolungata alle radiazioni può causare tumori o mutazioni genetiche, spiega Mousseau al New York Times:

“Questi livelli di esposizione cronica sono circa quelli che una specie può tollerare prima di mostrare sintomi, in termini di prospettiva di vita, tumori e mutazioni genetiche”.

Se il numero di insetti nelle aree più radioattive è diminuito, alcune specie di uccelli sembrano essersi adattati producendo più antiossidanti nel proprio organismo, sostanze che li proteggono dalle mutazioni e ammortizzano i danni genetici: una sorta di “selezione innaturale” per cui gli uccelli si adattano alle radiazioni ed evolvono per sopravvivere.

Ad interessare particolarmente Mousseau sono però i ragni e le loro ragnatele, che il biologo fotografa e studia. Secondo lo scienziato, l’esposizione prolungata alle radiazioni potrebbe aver alterato la capacità dei ragni di tessere ragnatele, creando schemi disordinati che Mousseau cerca nelle oltre 200 foto scattate.

Il ricercatore ha eseguito rivelazioni di radioattività anche a Fukushima, notando cambiamenti e adattamenti simili a quelli Chernobyl e spiega:

“Trovare lo stesso tipo di risposte biologiche in entrambi i posti rafforza l’ipotesi che siano proprio le radiazioni ad indurre gli impatti negativi”.

Morto Roberto Mancini, il poliziotto della Terra dei fuochi

TRA I PRIMI A INTUIRE L'INTRECCIO TRA CAMORRA E AZIENDE DEL NORD. M5S: «FUNERALI DI STATO»

È morto Roberto Mancini, il poliziotto che parlò di Terra dei fuochi mentre noi dormivamo

Stroncato da un cancro causato dall'esposizione ai veleni
negli anni 90 durante i primi sopralluoghi in Campania

di Alessandro Chetta

(NdR: ora la contaminazione radioattiva si chiama "riverberi tossici"...)

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Roberto Mancini

È morto l'agente Roberto Mancini. Combattente silenzioso, uso a obbedirfacendo. Come gli eroi più utili ma anche i più isolati. Mancini, sconfitto all'ospedale di Perugia da un cancro, è stato uno dei primi poliziotti a battersi contro il flagello delle ecomafie. Al modo dei dirigenti con quelle deleghe, è chiaro: rispettando procedure non convocando conferenze stampa. La Terra dei fuochi, il biocidio campano: Roberto, operativo in polizia dagli anni '80, l'aveva intuito quando i magistrati iniziavano solo a tastare il terreno infetto e i media non immaginavano le proporzioni dello sfacelo, un po' com'è accaduto nei cento giorni del genocidio in Ruanda. L'esposizione continuata ai riverberi tossici è certamente la causa principale delle malattie del poliziotto. A «Change.org» la moglie Monika affidò un appello: «Spero che le sofferenze che Roberto ha dovuto sopportare per aver servito lo Stato contro le ecomafie in Campania non cadano nell’indifferenza delle istituzioni e dell’opinione pubblica e mi auguro che il suo ricordo possa servire da esempio per tutti coloro che non vogliono arrendersi a chi vuole avvelenare le nostre terre, le nostre vite».

Nei primi anni '90 consegnò un'informativa alla Procura di Napoli in cui rendeva noto ciò che aveva visto e soprattutto respirato tra le province di Napoli e Caserta nel corso di allucinanti sopralluoghi nei siti di stoccaggio di materiale, anche radioattivo, e in discariche anarchiche più che illegali. Fu tra i primi a indicare nel perverso intreccio camorra-aziende del nord la chiave di volta della strategia del veleno quando in tanti si pensava che i traffici sporchi se li sorbisse giusto la Somalia. Quell'informativa è rimasta lettera morta fino a tre anni fa quando è stata inserita negli atti del processo per inquinamento della falde acquifere contro i mammasantissima dei rifiuti cancerogeni, tra cui Cipriano Chianese. Mancini ha fatto, anni dopo, anche causa alla Camera dei Deputati dove lavorava dal '97 al 2001 in qualità di consulente per la Commissione rifiuti (e quindi rappresentava il braccio 'secolare' delle istituzioni: verifiche e ispezioni sui luoghi d'inferno spettavano a lui).

Mancini intervistato dalle «Iene»

Il contenzioso legale era giustificato dal fatto di aver ricevuto come indennizzo per malattia derivante da «causa di servizio» la somma ridicola di cinquemila euro. Il web si è mobilitato contro la beffa. Sono state raccolte con 50mila firme: non è servito.
«È stato ucciso dallo stesso male che ha cercato di combattere. Il primo pensiero va alla famiglia a cui ci stringiamo silenziosamente in un momento di dolore che non trova parole per esprimersi» scrivono i deputati del M5s Camera in un post pubblicato sul blog di Grillo/Parlamento 5 stelle. I parlamentari «chiedono e pretendono» i funerali di Stato per il poliziotto, quale dovuto omaggio e saluto ad uno dei migliori investigatori dei recenti anni. La sua lotta non finisce qui pero', la porteremo avanti, perche' la monnezza non siede solo in strada».

Di recente Mancini era stato intervistato anche da Nadia Toffa delle Iene. Il poliziotto parlò in sostanza di inazione dello Stato; un apparato politico-burocratico narciso e cinico che sembra muoversi solo quando s'apparecchia il set con le telecamere. Quando il circo mediatico non c'è o ha levato le tende tocca ai Mancini riaprire il sipario o rassettare dietro le quinte. Il senso del dovere non basta, altrimenti saremmo salvi. Occorre santa passione civile.

30 aprile 2014