HEPA Air Filters in California Recorded Radiation Levels 538% Above Normal

The Intel Hub
February 2, 2012

A test of a HEPA air filter stationed in California recorded radiation levels at 351% and 538% above normal background levels.

The tests, conducted by the Enviroreporter, show levels much higher than normal background levels that are most likely coming from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

It is clear that, despite a large scale misinformation campaign conducted by various governments and sock puppets throughout the internet, an increase in radiation HAS been seen in the United States after the Japan Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Even Israel Admits that Iran Has Not Decided to Build a Nuclear Bomb

Washington’s Blog
January 26, 2012

Despite Misleading Hype, No Government Leaders Think that Iran Is Building a Nuclear Bomb

American and European leaders say that there is no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon.

Even Israel – which has threatened to attack Iran on its own – now admits the same thing.

As Haaretz noted on January 18th:

The intelligence assessment Israeli officials will present later this week to [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin ] Dempsey indicates that Iran has not yet decided whether to make a nuclear bomb.

The Israeli view is that while Iran continues to improve its nuclear capabilities, it has not yet decided whether to translate these capabilities into a nuclear weapon – or, more specifically, a nuclear warhead mounted atop a missile. Nor is it clear when Iran might make such a decision.

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Federal Judge Says States Not Allowed to Regulate Nuclear Safety

Noel Brinkerhoff, David Wallechinsky
All Gov
January 25, 2012

The state of Vermont’s effort to shut down a nuclear power plant has been halted by a federal judge who ruled officials exceeded their authority.

In 2010, the State Senate voted 26-4 to cause the 40-year-old Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, which has leaked radioactive material, to cease operations when its license expires in March. But Judge J. Garvan Murtha said Vermont does not have the power to compel the plant’s owner, Entergy, to stop using the reactor because only the federal government can regulate safety issues related to nuclear power. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has already announced that the power plant can remain operating for another 20 years.

The judge also ruled that the state cannot force Entergy to sell electricity from the reactor to in-state utilities at reduced rates as a condition of continued operation.

However, Murtha made it clear that he was only rejecting the state’s attempt to shut down the plant based on safety issues. He noted that his decision did not “purport to define or restrict the State’s ability to decline to renew a certificate of public good on any ground not pre-empted or not violative of federal law.”

Vermont officials are expected to appeal the ruling

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Tepco Drills Hole in Fukushima Reactor – Finds Nuclear Fuel Has Gone Missing

Washington’s Blog
January 20, 2012

I noted last month in connection with Tepco’s announcement of “cold shutdown” of the Fukushima reactors:

If the reactors are “cold”, it may be because most of the hot radioactive fuel has leaked out.

The New York Times pointed out last month:

A former nuclear engineer with three decades of experience at a major engineering firm … who has worked at all three nuclear power complexes operated by Tokyo Electric [said] “If the fuel is still inside the reactor core, that’s one thing” …. But if the fuel has been dispersed more widely, then we are far from any stable shutdown.”

Indeed, if the center of the reactors are in fact relatively “cold”, it may be because most of the hot radioactive fuel has leaked out of the containment vessels and escaped into areas where it can do damage to the environment.

After drilling a hole in the containment vessel of Fukushima reactor 2, Tepco cannot find the fuel. As AP notes:

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Study Finds that Childhood Leukemia Rates Double Near Nuclear Power Stations

John Daly
Oilprice.com
January 19, 2012

In a report certain to cause fear and loathing in the global nuclear industry, an eminent French research institute published a study in the International Journal of Cancer, which notes increased rates of leukemia in children living close to French nuclear power plants (NPPs.)

How much greater?

The study by the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (French Institute of Health and Medical Research, or INSERM) found a leukemia rate twice as high among children under the age of 15 living within a 3.1-mile radius of France’s 19 nuclear power plants.

INSERM has carried out similar research in conjunction with the Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety, or IRSN) CEPA UMRS1018, team 6 for over two decades, but has never before found a higher incidence of leukemia.

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Top US Nuclear Expert Tells Obama: There Is No Weapons Threat From Iran

LaRouchePAC
January 17, 2012

The former director of U.S. programs for production of nuclear materials and components for nuclear weapons, Clinton Bastin, sent an open letter to President Obama the morning of January 13, explaining that there is no weapons threat from Iran’s fully safeguarded nuclear power and research programs. A copy of the letter, which the nuclear scientist also sent to the Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, was made available to 21st Century Science & Technology magazine yesterday. It is reproduced below in full.

Bastin, who has served in leading positions in government since the 1950s, laid out the case on Iran in greater detail in an interview with 21st Century Science Nov. 18, 2011. The interview, which devastates the arguments for an Iranian nuclear weapons threat, is available at the 21st Century Science and Technology website.

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Accident at Second Japanese Nuclear Complex: The Nuclear Accident You Never Heard About

Global Research, January 12, 2012

You’ve heard about the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex.

But there was another Japanese nuclear accident last year.

As I explained in March of last year:

The 6 problem reactors which have gotten all of the press are located within the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

However, the same nuclear power plant operator that runs the Daiichi complex – Tepco – runs a separate nuclear complex 7 miles away, called Fukushima Daini. There are 4 reactors located at the Daini complex.
On March 12th, Tepco reported:

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The New York Times is Lying About Iran’s Nuclear Program

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MIL20120106&articleId=28524

 
by Judy Miller

It’s deja vu all over again. AIPAC is trying to trick America into another catastrophic war with a Middle Eastern country on behalf of the Likud Party’s colonial ambitions, and the New York Times is lying about allegations that said country is developing “weapons of mass destruction.”

In an article attributed to Steven Erlanger on January 4 (“Europe Takes Bold Step Toward a Ban on Iranian Oil “), this paragraph appeared:

The threats from Iran, aimed both at the West and at Israel, combined with a recent assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran’s nuclear program has a military objective, is becoming an important issue in the American presidential campaign. [my emphasis]
The claim that there is “a recent assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran’s nuclear program has a military objective” is a lie.

As Washington Post Ombudsman Patrick Pexton noted on December 9,

But the IAEA report does not say Iran has a bomb, nor does it say it is building one, only that its multiyear effort pursuing nuclear technology is sophisticated and broad enough that it could be consistent with building a bomb.

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