While traveling in Japan several weeks ago, Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen took soil samples in Tokyo public parks, playgrounds, and rooftop gardens. All the samples would be considered nuclear waste if found here in the US. This level of contamination is currently being discovered throughout Japan. At the US NRC Regulatory Information Conference in Washington, DC March 13 to March 15, the NRC's Chairman, Dr. Gregory Jaczko emphasized his concern that the NRC and the nuclear industry presently do not consider the costs of mass evacuations and radioactive contamination in their cost benefit analysis used to license nuclear power plants. Furthermore, Fairewinds believes that evacuation costs near a US nuclear plant could easily exceed one trillion dollars and contaminated land would be uninhabitable for generations.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Not a shocking fact at all: Soil samples in TOKYO would be considered NUCLEAR WASTE in the US!
While traveling in Japan several weeks ago, Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen took soil samples in Tokyo public parks, playgrounds, and rooftop gardens. All the samples would be considered nuclear waste if found here in the US. This level of contamination is currently being discovered throughout Japan. At the US NRC Regulatory Information Conference in Washington, DC March 13 to March 15, the NRC's Chairman, Dr. Gregory Jaczko emphasized his concern that the NRC and the nuclear industry presently do not consider the costs of mass evacuations and radioactive contamination in their cost benefit analysis used to license nuclear power plants. Furthermore, Fairewinds believes that evacuation costs near a US nuclear plant could easily exceed one trillion dollars and contaminated land would be uninhabitable for generations.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
The next 9 to even 10-magnitude of mega-earthquake will hit... the West Coast?
The Pacific Ring Of
Fire has caused a number of terrible mega-earthquakes in the last two years:
February 27 2010
mega-earthquake in Chile,
September 4 2010
and February 22, mega-earthquake in Christchurch City,
March 11 2011,
mega-earthquake in Northeast Japan,
And the remaining
region of the Ring of Fire that had no earthquake is San Andreas Fault of the
West Coast of North America…
Will the next 9 or
even 10-magnitude mega-earthquake be hitting the West Coast of the US?
Britian’s MailOnline news
March 15 2011
Next is California?
Experts warned the West Coast could be the next earthquake victim of the Pacific’s
Ring of Fire.
“The West Coast has increased risk because the
Pacific Northwest has the same kind of characteristics as the fault beneath
Japan,’ said seismologist James Gaherty.
The Australian.com.au news
March 17 2011
The U.S. West Coast
is waiting for an overdue huge earthquake.
“From the
geological standpoint, this earthquake occurs very regularly," says
engineer Yumei Wang, who is the geohazards team leader at the Oregon Department
of Geology.
"With the
Cascadia fault, we have records of 41 earthquakes in the last 10,000 years with
an average of 240 years apart. Our last one was 311 years ago so we are
overdue," she says.
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