Speculative Radiation Numbers from HAARP/Stuxnet Quake/Nuke False Flag in Japan

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A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/science/17plume.html

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the helicopter dumps are just for show.

The level of radiation detected at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has fallen steadily over the past 12 hours, an official at Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has said, according to the Reuters news agency. A level of 752 microsieverts per hour was recorded at the plant’s main gate at 1700 on Wednesday (0800 GMT), said Tetsuo Ohmura. The monitoring point was then changed to the plant’s west gate and readings were taken every 30 minutes, he said. At 0500 on Thursday (2000 GMT on Wednesday), the reading was 338 microsieverts per hour. That level is still much higher than it should be, but is not dangerous, Mr Ohmura added.

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And who takes a vacation during this crisis?  Obama and his family to South America over the week-end. 

http://blogs.forbes.com/kenrapoza/2011/03/14/obama-heads-to-rio-sunday-maximum-security-awaits/

President Barack Obama will take his first official trip to Brazil this weekend where he will speak in the popular Cinelandia Square in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Access, of course, will be tightly restricted and security measures so secretive that not even the Embassy or US Consulate in Rio know exactly how it’s all going to go down. Obama’s speech will be free and open to the public and take place around 15:00 local time (14:00 EST). Access to the square will begin at 11:30, and is sure to draw a crowd. Obama is popular in Brazil. One politician seeking office in Rio actually changed his name to Barack Obama in 2008 to solicit votes. He didn’t win.

The Obama family will also take in the sights in Rio. A trip to Corcovado mountain, where the Christ the Redeemer statue stands (France gave us Lady Liberty, gave Brazil Jesus) is supposedly on the itinerary. What trip to Rio would be complete without it? If they do make it to the top of the mountain, they will do so with an entourage of secret service and Brazil’s Elite Squad, known as BOPE.

More at link above

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the helicopter dumps are just for show.

The level of radiation detected at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has fallen steadily over the past 12 hours, an official at Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has said, according to the Reuters news agency. A level of 752 microsieverts per hour was recorded at the plant’s main gate at 1700 on Wednesday (0800 GMT), said Tetsuo Ohmura. The monitoring point was then changed to the plant’s west gate and readings were taken every 30 minutes, he said. At 0500 on Thursday (2000 GMT on Wednesday), the reading was 338 microsieverts per hour. That level is still much higher than it should be, but is not dangerous, Mr Ohmura added.

Anyone mention which way and how fast the wind was blowing or how low/high the temperature had dropped/risen?  Steam and smoke rises more when it's cold and, likewise, in high wind cools-settles farther away.  LOL

The measurement at Joe's Garage is irrelevant it's the radiation (and temperatures) at each of the reactor building tops.

Has anyone bothered to parachute down any Remote Radio Telemetering Geiger and Infrared Thermal Detectors onto the (remaining tops of the) Units so they can monitor each one closely?

They should deploy two at each, one over the fuel storage and another, if possible, over each containment vessel. Apparently the central main control room is now inaccessible and still unpowered at any rate anyhow.

[Valerius]

And who takes a vacation during this crisis?  Obama and his family to South America over the week-end. 

 

Hell, I'd be on a trip to South America in a minute if I had the money.

[Dig]

Is anyone else not impressed with the Japanese government response. Frankly we're in a state of emergency. If this was going on in the USA, I think we'd be sacrificing soldiers lives at this point and throwing everything we had at the problem to get things under control. Only four drops of water? No power yet? No water cannon yet? We hear so much about Japanese robotics, don't they have a way to send in machinery to deploy water hoses? I think we're screwed, and we're not allowing American soldiers in to assist in any meaningful way.

Given the fact that this is now the third time psychopaths within the bankster owned Pentagon has nuked Japan...why would they want more infiltration by the bankster owned Pentagon soldiers who are soon to be outfitted with a collar of obedience?

Look what happened in Haiti when they let in "Peace Forces"...they spread Cholera all over the place killing tens of thousands more than the HAARP earthquake weapon did.

This contrived narrative is the same as with the BP oil spill and we are to be looking at the readings just like we were shown the live camera feed of the methane volcano which was 100% manipulated to play out the Shakespearean tragedy intended to force us all into either chaotic panic or comatosed paralysis.

What they do not want is anyone questioning the causes, we are to just be repeaters and parrots to the supposedly "latest" roller coaster ride of speculative info.

[Dig]

Hey look...Exelon and Tom Ridge plan on running the same scenario in Dresden, IL on Wednesday...

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=203669.0

Worried about a nuke cloud from Japan? Do you think maybe this false flag opportunity should be canceled?

NRC PROPOPOSES $65,000 FINE AGAINST THE DRESDEN STATION
FOR FAILURES TO CONTROL AND ACCOUNT FOR SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL
http://www.tmia.com/old-website/News/NRCNews_ExelonProposedFine.htm

            The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a $65,000 fine against Exelon Generation Company for failure to properly implement its program for control and accounting of special nuclear materials at the Dresden Nuclear Station between 1959 and 2007. The plant is located in Morris, Ill.
 
            The NRC qualifies the following isotopes as special nuclear material: plutonium, uranium-233, uranium enriched in the isotope U-233 or U-235.
 
            In May 2007, the Dresden Nuclear Station reported to the NRC that the plant could not account for two fuel pellets and a number of in-core detectors which totaled less than one gram of fuel material. The discovery was made during a review of the station’s special nuclear material accounting records. According to a 1977 Dresden report, the fuel pellets were supposed to be placed in the spent fuel pool but could not be located during the 2007 inspection. During the same review, station personnel determined that some records for storing and shipping in-core detectors were missing. In-core detectors are used to measure the activity of neutrons in the reactor core.
 
            These accounting failures, although unacceptable, did not result in a safety or security hazard. The pellets could not have been removed from the plant by individuals without alarming the radiation monitoring equipment. The missing pellets and in-core detectors are likely still on-site or could have been transferred to an NRC-regulated disposal site.
 
In June 2007, the NRC conducted an inspection of the plant’s Material Control & Accounting program. NRC inspectors found that, contrary to NRC regulations, the utility failed to keep complete records; establish, maintain, and follow written Material Control & Accounting procedures sufficient to account for special nuclear material at the plant; and conduct a physical inventory of all special nuclear material on a yearly basis. The inspection report is not available to the public because it contains plant security information.
 
 
“The NRC takes the issue of accounting for nuclear materials very seriously,” said Regional Administrator James Caldwell. “Even though the missing material at Dresden does not represent a danger to the public, the NRC is taking strong measures to make sure that all special nuclear material is accounted for at Dresden and at every nuclear plant in the country.”
 
Dresden has conducted an extensive search for the pellets and the in-core detectors. The utility has also implemented corrective actions to make sure the accounting problems do not recur. Dresden’s Material Control & Accounting procedures have been revised. Exelon is revising corporate procedures to ensure that visual verification of special nuclear material is performed on an annual basis for all required locations and that all special nuclear material records are retained for the lifetime of every Exelon plant.

Exelon says radioactive leak has been contained
http://archive.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/06/exelon-radioactive-leak-contained-not-in-water-supply.html
June 9, 2009 2:25 PM | 2 Comments

A radioactive leak at Exelon's Dresden nuclear power plant has been contained and isn't a risk to public health, authorities said today.

Leaked tritium -- a radioactive by-product of nuclear reaction that can cause cancer and birth defects -- was found Saturday during routine tests at the Grundy County plant, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The leak is not believed to have left the 1,700-acre plant site. Exelon officials said leaked tritium has not entered the public water supply.

But the company hasn't found the cause or source of the leak, which was discovered in a monitoring well and storm sewers at the 37-year-old plant, the oldest privately-financed nuclear reactor in the United States and not far from the Kankakee and Des Plaines Rivers.

Workers today were digging in the "general area" where a waste pipe is believed to have failed and are testing other wells at the plant, Exelon spokeswoman Krista Lopykinski said.

"There's no danger to public or staff safety," she said.

Records show Exelon officials took steps to hide radioactive tritium spills which escaped its Braidwood Generation Station in Will County between 1996 and 2003. It agreed to pay $11.5 million toward a new water supply for the neighboring village of Godley and is now required to inform state and federal officials of tritium spills as soon as they are discovered.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokeswoman Viktoria Mitlyng said the latest Dresden leak was "completely different" from the Braidwood leaks because it is limited to the plant site. Federal and state monitors are overseeing Exelon's clean-up effort and the firm is not expected to be fined, Mitlyng said.

But Paul Gunther, of anti-nuclear campaign group Beyond Nuclear, said Exelon has a history of "trivializing uncontrolled and unmonitored" tritium leaks.

"Where is that contaminated water going to be 10 years from now?" Gunther said. "Groundwater can move and its movement is hard to predict."

With a radioactive half-life of 12 years, the leak will pose a toxic hazard for 120 years, increasing the cost of decommissioning the site when the plant eventually closes, Gunther added.

Campaigners say Exelon should be more proactive in replacing aging underground pipes at Dresden, and rely less on monitoring wells to detect leaks after they've happened.

The level of leaked tritium detected in the monitoring well Saturday was 3.2 million picocuries per liter of water, more than three times what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines as safe for drinking water.

A Nuclear Whistleblower at Home
http://www.alternet.org/story/16097

AlterNet exclusive: A former company man charges that casks designed to hold buried nuclear waste don't meet federal safety standards and could leak.
June 6, 2003  |    
 
Oscar Shirani just didn't understand when his former employer, Exelon, wouldn't stop its high-level nuclear waste container manufacturer. The containers, like the ones Shirani say headed for the Dresden plant in Illinois, are being filled with radioactive spent fuel and installed at nuclear plants around the country. Shirani fears the shoddy work will result in affecting the health of millions of people.

Despite their delicate and deadly cargo, the casks "are nothing but garbage cans" if their fabrication violates government specs, said Shirani.

Instead of giving him a medal for thorough work and dedication,
Shirani says Exelon convinced him to transfer to another job and then, conveniently, laid him off.

The self-described "company man," turned freshly minted whistleblower, might be able to do what anti-nuclear activists have been unable to accomplish -- pounding nails into the nuclear casket, forcing old plants to shut down. Then again, the federal government could acknowledge the alleged sub-standard work and hope the casks don't leak anytime in the next few thousand years.

The nuclear industry has turned to on-site radioactive waste storage in what's called "dry casks" in order to keep nuclear plants humming. Commercial nukes all have spent fuel pools. When those are filled up -- and most are at, or near, capacity already -- environmentalists expected the industry would be forced to turn off the plants.

Like a clogged septic tank, you have to quit flushing when it's full. But environmentalists were out-flanked by industry when it figured out a new "sewage" storage plan.

Industry hoped that it would have a permanent waste site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, long before now. Nuclear plant owners, however, could see that a Yucca repository is a far off, if ever, possibility. They moved to simply build a new and different kind of above-ground septic tank.

What Shirani alleges is that those tanks (a company called Holtec designed them and uses U.S. Tool & Die to make them) are not being fabricated to Nuclear Regulatory Commission specs. While some believe NRC specs themselves don't provide much safety assurance, Shirani did.

"I thought the NRC was a big dog and a force," he said, but without the kind of oversight he maintains was thwarted, the safety of nuclear plants "is suspect."

Failure Points

Shirani's nuke casket story is akin to, say, ordering a new Hummer from the dealership. In the glossy brochure, the thick boxy steel can repel almost anything short of armor-piercing projectiles. But when you get the SUV home, you find it's made of glued fiberglass and spills passengers all over the sidewalk at every approaching pothole.

If the casks are shoddy, would they leak radioactivity and endanger public health? Shirani could only guess that it could affect "millions." Activists say they just don't know.

"Federal regulations should not make [Shirani], or us, or the NRC, or the cask owner guess about consequences," said David Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists nuclear safety engineer. "The regulations require a certain level of performance and his findings were below that minimum level. It may not be that the cask will fail when challenged, but they are unnecessarily and illegally closer to the failure point."

Welds on the casks were performed by "unqualified welders"
and materials control was inadequate for the casks, Shirani reported to Exelon in mid-2000.

Fabrication engendered brittleness in materials, weakening them, Shirani notes. He maintains Holtec failed to report holes in the neutron shielding material. He allleges that Exelon "falsified" quality assurance documents and "misled" the NRC in last year's investigation of the problem. He found "hundreds of non-conformance items." Overall, he claims that what is being manufactured to hold nuclear waste is not what was approved in conceptual design by the federal government.

"I called my people in Washington and tried to get them to do something, but they didn't do anything," said Ross Landsman, NRC Region III inspector in a January deposition provided by Shirani.

"Every time I find some stuff wrong with any of the Holtec stuff, my brilliant cohorts in Washington say, 'Give them an exemption'," Landsman said sarcastically. "Holtec, as far as I'm concerned, has a non-effective QA (quality assurance) program and US Tool & Die has no QA program whatsoever."

Landsman added that the issues raised by Shirani on the casks headed for the Dresden plant had not been resolved, despite an August 2000 audit stating the problems had been fixed.

Cover Up?

Shirani had audited Holtec and its suppliers for the Nuclear Users Procurement Issues Committee, identifying what he calls "major design and fabrication issues" against Holtec in 1999 and 2000. He filed those with the NRC in November 2000. The NRC closed the allegations procedure a year later.

Shirani said he tried to put a "stop work" order on the casks' fabrication to no avail. Anti-nuclear activists have followed up on Shirani's claims, filing Freedom of Information Act requests to find out what the government did about these claims.

The activists are backing Shirani in his quest to get the NRC to look into the original allegations and their cover up through the NRC inspector general.

"The NRC has not contacted us," responded Brian Gutherman, Holtec manager of licensing. "The NRC did approve the design as a snapshot in time. We're allowed to make certain changes below the safety threshold." Gutherman said Holtec "is absolutely not concerned" about cask safety and potential leakage, and that between the NRC and Holtec's clients, "nowhere has anyone suggested such a thing." As for Shirani, Gutherman said, "He's just making things up."

If the casks are found to be fabricated below specifications, the NRC could simply let them be. "They could be accepted as is or get approval of the [changed] design. There could also be an exemption," said NRC spokesperson John Monninger. He added, though, there is a possibility the government won't let the casks be used at all.

Insider Information

Being a whistleblower isn't easy. You can be celebrated, like Jeff Wigand who revealed the dirt on tobacco purveyors Brown & Williamson and had a movie, "The Insider," made about him. Most likely, though, whistleblowers lose their livelihood, are mocked by their former peers and considered "eccentric" at best -- all this for deciding to follow the muse of conscience instead of the dominant paradigm.

"It's ethical cleansing," of the nuclear industry, chided Union of Concerned Scientists' Lochbaum -- a former industry man himself.

Shirani's former employer, Exelon, rejected the dust-up. "His case has been heard by numerous boards and agencies and it was dismissed. There is no substantiation for those claims," said Exelon spokesperson Ann Mary Carley She could, however, say that only the labor administrative review board has heard Shirani's complaints. The board's decisions are on appeal.

As a pro-nuclear power conservative company man, Shirani can't help still believing in the efficacy of the system -- but now he believes that the system can be flawed.

"Without the enforcement [of NRC regulations] I believe that we allow these people to spit on the face of quality and safety. This would be my top priority in my life more than my financial damage -- to see justice served."

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http://coto2.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/us-radiation-monitoring-map-in-real-time/

REAL TIME RADIATION DATA FOR US - updates every minute

[Dig]

Fears, reality clash over radiation from Japan
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/03/fears_reality_clash_over_radia.html
Published: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 7:47 AM     Updated: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 7:59 AM
 By Ted Roelofs | The Grand Rapids Press

GRAND RAPIDS — Local experts say there are two chances of significant radiation from Japan’s failing nuclear plants reaching West Michigan: slim and none. “I just want people to know the odds favor this to be a nonissue for us,” said WOOD-TV meteorologist Bill Steffen. “The odds of getting that amount of radiation into the upper atmosphere are very, very small.” Steffen explained that radiation releases thus far are not reaching high enough into the atmosphere to be carried into the jet stream and thus transported toward the United States. Even if they were, Steffen said, they would be “extremely diluted.” As it stands, Steffen said, radiation particles likely would fall into the Pacific Ocean, pushed by prevailing westerly winds, long before they reached the U.S. coast. Three Japanese nuclear plants have reported partial meltdowns, explosions and discharges of radioactive materials in the wake of Friday’s earthquake and tsunami, raising fears of a catastrophic failure equivalent to the 1986 Soviet Union meltdown at Chernobyl. The explosion and meltdown at that plant killed 56 people as a direct result of radiation exposure, according to the United Nation’s World Health Organization, which predicted that 4,000 will die from it eventually. Another United Nations agency predicts 16,000 deaths from Chernobyl.

For all the troubling images coming from Japan of explosions and radioactive venting, the crisis has not reached Chernobyl proportions. The meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor blew the unit’s casing apart and exposed the core to the atmosphere. Experts say it appears the Japanese reactor vessels have not melted, however, thanks to ongoing attempts to pump seawater into the cooling systems. A Russian nuclear expert said the two incidents are not comparable. “An accident like Chernobyl cannot happen again — this is a reactor of a different generation,” Rafael Arutyunyan, deputy head of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Nuclear Energy Development Security, told Russian NTV News. “Even in the worst-case scenario of a total coolant failure, the radiation released will be hundreds of times less than from Chernobyl.” Soviet authorities tried to cover up the Chernobyl disaster, but the world was alerted to nuclear fallout traveling across northern Europe when radiations alarms sounded at a nuclear power station in Sweden.

University of Michigan Hospital radiation expert Richard Brown put the risk for radiation that would pose a health risk in this state at “effectively zero.” “There is nothing for people to worry about,” said Brown, the hospital’s director of general clinical nuclear medicine. “There should really be no concern on the part of the citizens of the United States, even if a meltdown were to occur in Japan.” Brown said the risk from radiation exposure drops rapidly with time and distance. At more than 6,000 miles from Japan, it effectively drops to zero. “The amount of radiation that even people in a different city in Japan receive is going to be minimal. There is going to be none here.” As to the risk to Michigan nuclear plants from a comparable tsunami, meteorologist Steffen is losing no sleep over that. “I wouldn’t be concerned about the nuclear facilities we have in Michigan,” Steffen said. He noted that Michigan sits in a geologically stable area not prone to earthquakes. “You won’t have a tsunami off Lake Michigan unless there was a meteor that fell into Lake Michigan, a huge meteor.”

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http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78887.html
Radiation levels unchanged from the helicopter water drops.

Heck it's 5:37 pm there. I fell asleep for longer than I meant to. This is dire.

[Dig]

The nuke crisis has become a military PsyOp! They want us in FEAR, FEAR, FEAR!

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -- FDR

While fear itself may not be the "only" thing we have to fear, it certainly makes the top ten list!

Why?

Because the more we're all like this...









...the easier it is for the ruling elite and their psych warfare experts to manipulate and control us.

Now, does that mean we should be like this instead...



Of course not, because that's yet another form of mass mind control.

The key is to stay informed, to stay focused on things that matter, to educate and enlighten your friends and family members, but to not become overwhelmed with fear.

Because always remember: no matter what happens, all of us are going to die some day. It's only a question of what we do between now and then to make the world a better place.

And we can't do much of anything if we're always paralyzed in fear.

All that being said, I'll conclude with one of my favorite quotes of Henry George:

“Out upon nature, in upon himself, back through the mists that shroud the past, forward into the darkness that overhangs the future, turns the restless desire that arises when the animal wants slumber in satisfaction. Beneath things, he seeks the law; he would know how the globe was forged and the stars were hung, and trace to their origins the springs of life. And, then, as the man develops his nobler nature, there arises the desire higher yet--the passion of passions, the hope of hopes--the desire that he, even he, may somehow aid in making life better and brighter, in destroying want and sin, sorrow and shame. He masters and curbs the animal; he turns his back upon the feast and renounces the place of power; he leaves it to others to accumulate wealth, to gratify pleasant tastes, to bask themselves in the warm sunshine of the brief day. He works for those he never saw and never can see; for a fame, or maybe but for a scant justice, that can only come long after the clods have rattled upon his coffin lid. He toils in the advance, where it is cold, and there is little cheer from men, and the stones are sharp and the brambles thick. Amid the scoffs of the present and the sneers that stab like knives, he builds for the future; he cuts the trail that progressive humanity may hereafter broaden into a highroad.”

-- Henry George, Progress and Poverty, p. 136

[Dig]

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78887.html
Radiation levels unchanged from the helicopter water drops.

Heck it's 5:37 pm there. I fell asleep for longer than I meant to. This is dire.

That is why these false flags are so important to investigate. They create dire circumstances. From Gulf of Tonkin to 9/11 to the Stuxnet/HAARP false flags, they are progressively making greater and greater catastrophic events. The news from various sources is so dire that it almost looks like the murals at the Denver International Airport.

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http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78908.html
Massive power outage in Japan.

This is bad people are going to be trapped in Japan without a subway or rails if this happens. There is already no gasoline to travel. People are desperate to go further South.

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As far as I can tell, the electricity has still not been re-established. No matter what, the electric company officials are saying on NHK World that the nuclear reactor's pumps are damaged in the earthquake and that they wold be using new pumps to pump the seawater. It all sounds like BS now. I cannot see how they can get this to work. Realize they are losing daylight, and trying to wire the electricity, install pumps, etc in the dark. The police have still not deployed the water cannon.

[Dig]

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78908.html
Massive power outage in Japan.

This is bad people are going to be trapped in Japan without a subway or rails if this happens. There is already no gasoline to travel. People are desperate to go further South.

The nuke/earthquake attack on japan likely will create such intergenerational animosity that NATO/Pentagon may want to rethink such activities int he future (one would hope). I wonder why with all of the dire genocide planned for Japan that over 1 million public workers in America are taking part in an Earthquake/Nuke Reactor Meltdown drill from now until August.

Won't most of the people that can help the Japanese be unable to because of the 1/1,000,000,000,000 chance that the US ever has the events planned in the drill? Of course this figure increases to 1 in 1 if NATO/Pentagon decides to get involved as they did in Japan.

Here is a 500 page report detailing the hundreds of synchronized operations to fake kill over 200,000 in America and affect the lives of over 7 million:

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=203621.0

This is one hell of a coincidence.

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The BBC is tweeting:
"More from the Foreign Office on their advice to Britons in Japan; FCO Minister Alistair Burt says flights out of the country have been chartered in case commercial airliners are full: "Because the situation was unsafe on the streets yesterday [Wednesday] and it was difficult to get to the airport, we understand the situation is clearer today, we are encouraging UK citizens to leave on commercial flights. If that isn't enough, we've already chartered two planes to help people get to Dubai. But at present, we think the situation is appropriate for people to leave commercially, and we're advising them to do so.""

[Dig]

The BBC is tweeting:
"More from the Foreign Office on their advice to Britons in Japan; FCO Minister Alistair Burt says flights out of the country have been chartered in case commercial airliners are full: "Because the situation was unsafe on the streets yesterday [Wednesday] and it was difficult to get to the airport, we understand the situation is clearer today, we are encouraging UK citizens to leave on commercial flights. If that isn't enough, we've already chartered two planes to help people get to Dubai. But at present, we think the situation is appropriate for people to leave commercially, and we're advising them to do so.""

Wasn't there a Soros/Twitter revolution planned for Dubai? That would suck running from one RMA/Cybernetic operation into the hands of another one.

[rubicondecision]

There is very scant information coming from the Japanese news agencies in the last five hours. It's 6 pm Japan time, and they will be losing daylight soon in order to work outside. A recap, the water by helicopters have not done anything. The water cannon which was supposed to help cool #4, has still not deployed. The electricity has not been restored to the nuclear reactors. The backup pumps have still not been wired up. I cannot see this happening by nightfall.

NHK World has been running five hour old news. This may be normal for this time of the day over there. Kyodo, which is the main news source, I guess sort of like AP, has not posted a news story for the last 1.5 hours.

BBC should be broadcasting live soon, and I'll post that new information as soon as it posts.

[rubicondecision]

Lessons learned:
Get out way before the government says to. The longer you wait, the less planes, less gasoline, more power outages, less food, etc that you will have. In some cases people have been trapped by their own inaction since they followed the Japanese government's advice. Now Tokyo residents want to leave but they are being hampered by all of the above. There are people trapped to the North of the failing reactor that are hampered by higher radiation levels. No one knows the radiation levels since the Japanese government says that the radiological data (called SPEEDI) has been down for over 12 hours.

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http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2011031700757
U.S. Drone Used to Help Quake Relief in Japan

   Washington, March 16 (Jiji Press)--The U.S. Air Force has been using a reconnaissance drone to survey areas hit by last week's massive earthquake in Japan, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
   The Global Hawk unmanned aircraft, which started its surveillance mission in Japan Sunday, has been sending images taken in the mission to the Japanese government for use in rescue and relief activities in quake-hit areas.
   The Global Hawk has already flown over a troubled nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, to collect data and imagery, the sources said.
   Its activity is expected to help with efforts to cool crippled reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant as manned planes are not able to fly over it due to possible exposure to high-level radiation.
   The Global Hawk can contribute greatly to disaster relief activities, an Air Force official said.

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Fukushima plant begins to install new power lines (Thursday, March 17, 2011 13:08 +0900 (JST))

Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, says it will begin work to install new power lines to restore the plant's cooling systems.

The 3 reactors at the plant lost cooling capabilities due to a power outage following the earthquake on Friday and damage to an emergency power generator from subsequent tsunami.

The company is taking measures such as injecting water to the reactors by using pump trucks, but recovery of the cooling functions is not in sight.

The company says it will start work to set up power lines from the high-voltage cables near the plant on Thursday afternoon in an effort to regain power supply.

It aims to restore the main cooling systems which currently use seawater.

But it says as the pumps, which were doused with sea water, need to be repaired, it is planning to use makeshift pumps to connect with the systems.

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/17/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html?hpt=T1
"But hours later, the Tokyo Electric Power Company -- which runs the plant -- told Japan's Kyodo News that the operation didn't appear to lower radiation levels. The report suggested levels actually rose to about 3,000 microsievert per hour. It takes a year for a person to be naturally exposed to that level of radiation."

"Koichi Shiga described the town of Minami Soma, 25 kilometers from the plant and site of the Hotel Iseya that he owns, as ghostly quiet with most all shops closed and empty streets. Electricity and water were still flowing, though evacuation efforts have been hampered by a paucity of gasoline.

"People have not evacuated, they are staying at home," Shiga told CNN. "There was a ration of 10 liters of gas, and I saw a long line of people."

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/17/japan.us.leaving/index.html?hpt=C1
The State Department announced late Wednesday that it has approved the departure of family members of U.S. government personnel from certain areas of Japan in the aftermath of the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear power plant crisis.

Charter flights will be made available to the approximately 600 people, according to Under Secretary of State Patrick Kennedy.

"When we do a voluntary authorized departure, the State Department bears the expense of the transportation," Kennedy said

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http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/military-to-begin-voluntary-evacuation-of-families-in-japan-1.137999
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The U.S. military is facilitating the voluntary evacuation of family members from Japan from at least three military bases in light of events following last week’s earthquake.

On Thursday afternoon, the Navy announced it would start evacuating families from Naval Air Facility Atsugi and Yokosuka Naval Base, near Tokyo. A few hours later, officials at Misawa Air Base, in northern Japan, did the same.

The only bases in the region yet to confirm that families would be evacuated was Yokota Air Base and Camp Zama.
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In a radio address Thursday afternoon, Col. Otto Feather, 374th Airlift Wing commander, said he expects his base to join the list soon.

“For those folks that really want to go, I think we’re going to be able to offer an opportunity in the next couple of days, or so, to make that happen,” Feather said in a release on the Yokota website.

The evacuations come amid concerns among residents that radiation from the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant will spread south to Yokosuka and Atsugi, which are about 200 miles from the damage site. The reactors began failing shortly after Friday’s 9.0 magnitude earthquake.

At Atsugi and Yokosuka, families of emergency first responders and deployed sailors will be the first to evacuate, according to Navy command officials involved in the emergency meetings.

As of Thursday afternoon, the plan was to evacuate families on buses, then transfer them to planes at Atsugi and Narita International Airport. From there, they would be flown to South Korea, officials say. Flights will also leave from Yokota Air Base, said Capt. Eric Gardner, Atsugi base commander.

The evacuations could start Thursday night, or Friday morning at the latest, officials say.

The Navy already has the capabilities of evacuating up to 10,000 people per day. If the Navy can secure the additional aircraft, it would be able to bump that number to 18,000 per day.

There are about 25,000 people at Yokosuka Naval Base, roughly 19,000 who are Americans or family members with Defense Department ID cards. There are 6,500 people at Atsugi, though the number of Americans wasn’t immediately available at press time.
“The order of departure: Women and children first, non-essential person second, essential personnel third, and then me,” Gardner said during a broadcast on the base command channel.

Military officials told families wishing to leave Japan to make sure they have all necessary documents before trying to board the plane.

The documents – known as a Noncombatant Evacuation Operation packet – include:

    * Defense Department ID card
    * Passport
    * DOD 2585 Form
    * DOD 1337 Form, if military
    * DOD 2461 form, if civilian
    * household goods inventory
    * record and copy of vehicle registration form.

School has been canceled at Yokosuka, Atsugi and Misawa.
The evacuations were authorized earlier Thursday by President Barack Obama through the State Department.

According to a State Department announcement received by Navy officials, “the Department of Defense will implement the Dept. of State-approved voluntary departure for eligible DoD dependents.  As with State Dept. dependents, these measures are temporary, and dependents will return when the situation is resolved.”

Naval Facilities Far East commander Capt. Robert McLean told all workers in a 2:30 p.m. e-mail message that “as a prudent action we are going to begin to voluntarily relocate dependents from Yokosuka and Atsugi. Local bases will provide amplifying guidance on priorities, guidelines, mustering locations, etc...

“If you have dependents evacuating, please ensure they have contact numbers.”

Navy facilities workers were told to remain, according to McLean’s e-mail message.

“Again, I am not aware of any change to the current health risk situation in Yokosuka and Atsugi, but due to the ongoing reactor issues, this is a prudent, pre-emptive effort,” McLean said.

Navy officials plan to go door-to-door to hand out bar-coded bracelets which would automatically manifest families, according to command officials involved in the emergency meetings.

All children at Yokosuka Naval Base and Naval Air Facility Atsugi schools were dismissed early Thursday afternoon following command meetings with teachers. Schools had already shown a dramatic rise in absences this week.

The voluntary evacuation is not a full non-combatant evacuation order, which would make evacuation mandatory for non-emergency essential personnel
Navy officials also indicated that helicopters assigned to the USS George Washington carrier strike group were being moved to Misawa Air Base, both to create space at Atsugi and to assist with relief efforts in northern Japan.

“Carrier Air Wing-5 will also leave but they are going north…to continue the humanitarian assistance that they are doing,” Gardner said.

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The latest OFFICIAL radiation levels at Fukushima. NOT SPECULATIVE, if you trust the Japanese government
http://www.mext.go.jp/component/a_menu/other/detail/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2011/03/17/1303727_05_1.pdf

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Tweets from The Daily Yomiuri
http://twitter.com/DailyYomiuri?_escaped_fragment_=/DailyYomiuri#!/DailyYomiuri

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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2011/03/16/disaster-in-japan-thousands-flee-tokyo-as-radiation-levels-reach-danger-levels-fears-of-meltdown-at-nuclear-plant-grow-86908-22993048/
Disaster in Japan: Thousands flee Tokyo as radiation levels reach danger levels & fears of meltdown at nuclear plant grow

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Good background on measurement units if nobody has posted it yet:

http://www.stevequayle.com/ARAN/rad.conversion.html

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Photos from the Earthquake and Nuclear Zones from The Daily Yomiuri
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/feature/graph/201012wind/glist.htm?ge=863&gr=3497

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EXCELLENT INFO!!!!!!!!!

http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2011031700757
U.S. Drone Used to Help Quake Relief in Japan

   Washington, March 16 (Jiji Press)--The U.S. Air Force has been using a reconnaissance drone to survey areas hit by last week's massive earthquake in Japan, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
   The Global Hawk unmanned aircraft, which started its surveillance mission in Japan Sunday, has been sending images taken in the mission to the Japanese government for use in rescue and relief activities in quake-hit areas.
   The Global Hawk has already flown over a troubled nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, to collect data and imagery, the sources said.
   Its activity is expected to help with efforts to cool crippled reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant as manned planes are not able to fly over it due to possible exposure to high-level radiation.
   The Global Hawk can contribute greatly to disaster relief activities, an Air Force official said.

http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/military-to-begin-voluntary-evacuation-of-families-in-japan-1.137999

Navy officials plan to go door-to-door to hand out bar-coded bracelets which would automatically manifest families, according to command officials involved in the emergency meetings.

Revolution in Military Affairs..100% False Flag Event

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For anyone up, the BBC is now broadcasting live:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

They seem to think the Japanese have lost control of the situation.


{The good news is that they have cleared the roads to the North, but fuel supplies are scarce, there's difficulty to get drivers to deliver supplies due to radiation. My comments}

It's quite possible that the pump equipment may fail when power is reapplied.

Travel advisories. Foreign governments are saying that citizens should consider leaving. Britain is offering free flights for people who have lost everything, otherwise it's around 600 pounds sterling to buy a ticket.

Will evacuees ever be allowed to return to their regions?

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http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/earthquake-disaster-in-japan/u-s-military-delivers-40-tons-of-supplies-to-hardest-hit-areas-1.138003
US Military delivers 40 tons of supplies.

http://www.stripes.com/news/misawa-residents-pulling-clean-up-duty-at-nearby-fishing-port-1.138013
Servicemen cognizant of the 50 mile restriction are helping with relief efforts

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Here we go, zerohedge reported yesterday that there was a rumor of closing the Japanese stock exchange (Nikkei). Now this tweet from the BBC:
"Japan's speaker of the upper house has suggested the country should consider closing the Tokyo stock market and foreign exchange market for a week, Kyodo news agency reports." Scanning the Kyodo news agency. When the story officially breaks, I'll post it.

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http://www.stripes.com/news/http-www-stripes-com-news-pentagon-preparing-for-a-nuclear-worst-case-scenario-at-fukushima-1-1379-1.137969

WASHINGTON — If the deteriorating situation at a Japanese nuclear plant veers toward a worst-case meltdown scenario, people across the country — including 86,000 American servicemembers, civilian employees and their dependents — could face an unprecedented atomic disaster.

The Pentagon on Wednesday began laying out precautions to keep troops safe, announcing a 50-mile no-go zone around the unstable Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex that is wider than the official Japanese evacuation zone. The U.S. Embassy in Japan told American citizens within 50 miles of the plant to evacuate if possible or stay indoors.

Meanwhile, military doctors began advising U.S. air crews flying rescue missions within 80 miles of the stricken complex to take potassium iodide tablets to combat harmful radiation effects. Already, troops on some bases in Japan and aboard ships offshore — including two air crew members on the USS Ronald Reagan who had to take iodide tablets Tuesday — have been exposed to radiation from the nuclear plants, although at levels not believed high enough to pose a serious risk.

Despite the precautions, there is no single Pentagon policy that determines how much radiation troops should be allowed to endure before they must be evacuated. Instead, the judgment is left to individual commanders. Several Pacific commanders contacted by Stars and Stripes for clarification referred questions back to the Pentagon.

In Washington, a spokesman for the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs referred questions about permissible radiation exposure levels to Pentagon media staff.

“We train and equip all of our people to operate in all kinds of environments," Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said. “We know how to measure, we know how to test, we know how to take precautions.”

Dr. Fred Mettler, a leading expert on the effects of radiation and a radiologist at the New Mexico Veterans Health System, oversaw a 1999 Institute of Medicine study that led to the recommendation against a single stringent Pentagon policy governing battlefield radiation exposure.

“Commanders should always seek to minimize the dose in the context of the requirements of the mission,” Mettler said in an interview. “Think of it like getting shot. Do you have a guide to how many bullets a soldier should be allowed to take?”
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The 1999 report, however, doesn’t address the question of what the military should do when entire bases are downwind from an unstable reactor, as is the case in Japan.

Some nuclear experts are now saying the Fukushima crisis could rival the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union.

Nuclear scientists use the term “core-on-the-floor” to describe radioactive fuel burning through protective containment layers, hitting water and bursting into the atmosphere in a huge steam explosion, spreading clouds of radioactive gas and dust.

It’s never happened before, but experts fear it may soon become reality in one or more reactors at the Fukushima nuclear complex, which was gravely damaged in last Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

“We are right now closer to core-on-the-floor than at any time in the history of nuclear reactors,” said Kenneth Bergeron, a former Sandia National Laboratory researcher who spent his career simulating such meltdowns, including in reactors of the type at the Fukushima plant.

Even in such a scenario, only people very near the plant — and well inside the 12-mile exclusion zone the Japanese government has set up — would be in danger of burns and other acute radiation effects, experts say.

But on U.S. bases hundreds of miles away, people still would need to take quick steps to limit exposure or else risk long-term cancer effects.

In the most devastating nuclear accident to date, at Chernobyl, there was no meltdown. Instead, the reactor exploded and burned for days, hurling radioactive dust laced with cesium, strontium, and radioactive iodine high into the air, which later menaced broad swaths of Europe as the materials fell back to Earth.

If one or more of the Fukushima reactor cores melt out of their containment vessels, the release could be smaller and less violent. But whether the effects would be less risky than Chernobyl, which officials estimate killed 50 people initially and will eventually lead to the cancer deaths of thousands, is an open question.

Fukushima “could even be more dangerous, depending on wind and weather,” said Bergeron, who is now a nuclear safety consultant and writer.

Large concentrations of radioactive material were found hundreds of miles away from Chernobyl’s ground zero, said Mettler, who, as the U.S. representative on radiation danger to the United Nations, was deeply involved with Chernobyl.

“What tends to go out are the things that are volatile, or gases,” he said. “Cesium 137 can easily go hundreds of miles.”

That means they could hit U.S. bases after a meltdown. Defense Department policies require commanders to have emergency procedures for distributing potassium iodide and Prussian blue, medications that block the uptake of radioactive iodine and cesium, respectively.

Prussian blue is stocked regionally at Trippler Army Medical Center in Hawaii. The Pentagon said Wednesday it has enough iodide on hand in Japan.

Even in its current state, Fukushima has released radiation measurable on U.S. bases. A measurement of 20 millirems of radiation exposure over 12 hours was made at Naval Base Yokosuka, not Naval Air Base Atsugi, although officials at the time recommended personnel at both locations take precautions.

Though health officials agree that’s not a harmful level in itself, it could become serious if it becomes a pattern. A 1998 U.S. Army guideline on low-level radiation set 50 cumulative millirems as a threshold at which exposed individuals should begin being monitored for harm.

From 50 to 500 millirems, one extra cancer death will occur in a population of 4,000 people, according to the Army’s data. The next threshold is 500 millirems, at which an extra cancer death will in a group of 400 people.

Though they won’t talk about specific disaster plans, base officials in Japan are trying to ease concerns among their military communities.

In Misawa, Air Force officials have repeatedly told residents they are in no danger of radiation from the failing nuclear reactors in Fukushima, which is about 240 miles south of the base.

“I am not moving my family out or secretly taking iodine pills,” Col. Michael Rothstein, the base commander, told Stars and Stripes Wednesday. “There is no threat here.”

Rothstein took that message on the radio with a live address Tuesday night as radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant spread to U.S. military bases in central Japan.

“My sense is there is a challenge reaching everybody with the message,” but residents are trusting reassurances from the base command, Rothstein said. Col. Guillermo Tellez, commander of the 35th Medical Group at Misawa, emphasized that there is no threat of radiation exposure and the base has gotten no direction from the Air Force to distribute potassium iodide.

Though it may strike some as glossing over a bad situation, many experts believe that the fear of being exposed to radiation can be more damaging than the radiation itself, leading to depression, substance abuse and other ills.

After Chernobyl, for instance, a multiparty study group including U.N. agencies and national governments concluded in 2005 that many thousands of people had been scarred psychologically by the event.

Mettler, the Chernobyl expert, offered some cold comfort to residents of the potential fallout zones.

“Japan just lost 10,000 or 20,000 people in the tsunami and earthquake,” he said. “The worst this [nuclear] situation can possibly get — in short-term and long-term effects — still can’t come anywhere close to that.”

Stars and Stripes reporters Kevin Baron, Travis Tritten, Ashley Rowland and Erik Slavin contributed to this report.

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wow, this will save the day


youll need to get closer than that

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http://www.stripes.com/news/http-www-stripes-com-news-pentagon-preparing-for-a-nuclear-worst-case-scenario-at-fukushima-1-1379-1.137969

Though it may strike some as glossing over a bad situation, many experts believe that the fear of being exposed to radiation can be more damaging than the radiation itself, leading to depression, substance abuse and other ills. After Chernobyl, for instance, a multiparty study group including U.N. agencies and national governments concluded in 2005 that many thousands of people had been scarred psychologically by the event.

Mettler, the Chernobyl expert, offered some cold comfort to residents of the potential fallout zones. “Japan just lost 10,000 or 20,000 people in the tsunami and earthquake,” he said. “The worst this [nuclear] situation can possibly get — in short-term and long-term effects — still can’t come anywhere close to that.”

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exactly, a thimblefull of water, just as I posted at 9 pm. Dropping water via helicopter could never truly cool it.I guess it's a PR stunt tp show they are doing something to alleviate the nuclear meltdown.

The Daily Yomiuri has been reporting that Mizuho Bank had had downtime with its ATMs was due to a surge in people sending money since last week's earthquake. The ATMs are down again, six hours after getting them to work. Imagine having no cash, and trying to manage. There aren't adequate food and water supplies anyway to purchase. Scary in a city the size of Tokyo.

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So what are you saying Dig? Should I stop reporting? Am I scaring you? Do you feel scarred?

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So what are you saying Dig? Should I stop reporting? Am I scaring you? Do you feel scarred?

So what are you saying rubicondecision? Should I stop actually reading what you are copying and pasting probably before you even read it? Is that scaring you that I am exposing what is actually reported? Do you feel scarred that people are not scarred enough?

I mean not for nothing but your continual, progressive, sustained talking points of "this is it", "this is dire", "they are losing control", "they have no hope", etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. is awesome if you are promoting a US takeover of Japan or any of the other irrational solutions to this false flag event. But in the rational approach to things, if you actually read the reporting you may find a world of difference. Also, BBC and the rest of the Rothschild/Bilderberg media seem to be the ones pressuring Japan to engage in debt relief of UK/US loans to get out of the propaganda scope. These are the same people that got us into illegal wars and they base their entire existence on sensationalizing Bilderberg agendas while covering up actual news.

But please keep reporting the info because it helps to see that their false flag is starting to get exposed (other than random tweets though - that is really the biggest psyop around)

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So what are you saying rubicondecision? Should I stop actually reading what you are copying and pasting probably before you even read it? Is that scaring you that I am exposing what is actually reported? Do you feel scarred that people are not scarred enough?

I got no idea of what your point is? Back to news stories....