Nuke disaster worsens

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Thu, 03/17/2011 - 12:00am
Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know"

Al Jazeera reported  this morning that the Japanese Prime Minister had been heard shouting at the head of TEPCO, the nuclear power corporation in Japan,  ""What the hell is going on?!"  And surely the world echoes with his question.   Who developed Japanese nuclear power? What's in store?  A look at the lies and secrets.  Listen to the audio and read more at Theresa's blog: http://kboo.fm/node/27366

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Nuclear meltdown is an enormous problem--and this show is most informative i've heard yet scouring the net.  But what I havn't heard anything about is the other enormous problemthe chemical soup from erupting industrial plants, chemical plants, oil refinereis, natural gas-home fires, buidling fires-toxic materials, etc.
 
You should do a show on that Theresa.
chec out the slideshow at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/galleries/earthquake_tsunami_strik...

I am in China, nanchang China, whixh is pretty far inland, in the mid south.  Every single site having to do with radiation--including radiation network usa is blocked.  Should i begin to worry?  they block everything here.  They dont even want people to know about their health.  i think its a sure sign that radiation fallout must be a problem her in china.  Maybe I should leave, but hwere too?  If I get on a plane it will take me throught prevailing winds of fallout over the pacific to LA or Snafrancisco.  Maybe I should just beat feet to tibet--oh, wait non-han chinese are not allowed there.  I guess I'm screwed.

 
Consider the water used to cool them--it comes from rivers and lakes and the ocean, the water circulates around the radioactive material and then is discharged back into the watersystem that we drink from, bath in, and swim in.  It's not safe to stand inside a nuke, so why would we presume the h2o is safe? or the steam rising form stacks? And wildlife?
"The cooling system at Indian Point power plant in New York on the Hudson River uses outdated technology that requires up to 2.5 billion gallons of river water each day for cooling. The daily water use results in deaths of almost one billion river organisms per year according to various publications. The AP reported baby fish and fish eggs, and other life forms are sucked into the cooling system, tossed around, warmed up and then ejected, dead or damaged.
Screens on the intakes stop larger fish from entering the system, but some fish are pressed against the screens and are killed or injured. The New York Department of the Environment and Conservation says one of the species that is being impacted is the shortnose sturgeon, and it is illegal to kill the endangered fish.
The state says the plant must retrofit to a newer cooling system which will not damage Hudson River organisms like the current one has been. The company that runs the plant says the retrofit is too expensive and will require operations to shut down for too long, and they can’t afford to lose the revenues."

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/nuclear-powerplant-kills-nearly-one-billion-organisms-a-year.html#ixzz1H0wiqesb
 
 

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