MP3 Fukushima Update - Yoichi Shimatsu and Jeff Rense

Well it's Yoichi Shimatsu again with Jeff Rense on his show, this is from 26 December 2011 and with 2012 approaching they talk a bit about the year that have passed. How could 2012 be any worse than this last year? It's hard to think of anything that could top the greatest nuclear disaster in the history of this planet. Only time will tell.

Cesium is now found 15 miles from the Fukushima plant in the groundwater, Yoichi talks about how in Japan they clear cut forests and mountain sides allowing the radiation to have easy access to the water table. SPEEDI (System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information) the program that the Japanese government have that show exactly where radioactive fallout where spread in Japan after the disaster. They had this program all this time, the knew where the radioactive material was going, have gone and they suppress vital information from the public.

The nuclear industry have an iron grip on the media both in Japan and the world. Top editors all over the world have been demoted because they report the truth behind Fukushima, that it was not safe or still is, nuclear meltdowns was a fact early on and that it's not under control at all. There is no freedom of press in this in any country it seems. This and much more is discussed in this 26 Dec 2011 Jeff Rense 23 min long program.

You can download it here and also from Rense.com

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Transcribed first minutes of the MP3:
Jeff Rense: OK hour 3, lets go over to Asia and talk to our colleague and friend Yoichi Shimatsu. Are you there Yoichi?

Yoichi Shimatsu: Yeah sure am, you know Christmas here is not really celebrated, most these countries are Buddhist countries there is not a lot of that but we’re are sitting here and waiting for the new year the solar new year. The much dreaded, prophesied and anticipated 2012.

Jeff Rense: Right..

Yoichi Shimatsu: What I cant figure out is how 2012 could be any worse than 2011.

Jeff Rense: *Laughing* agreed.

Yoichi Shimatsu: I’m afraid the prophecy might have been a year late..

Jeff Rense: Well I’m afraid that it could be worse, I’m afraid that they have a hell of a show planed for all the sheep next year. We have seen enough idiocy this last year to last us a lifetime. The latest well water 15 miles from Fukushima Daiichi, Caesium in the water that’s the groundwater folks, that’s the water table. 

Yoichi Shimatsu: Yeah that’s what we expected it’s coming in very fast because proper cause where not taken. You know one of the problems is when they do cut forest in Japan just like in the United States they do clear filling of forest which means..

Jeff Rense: They clear cut over there too? Complete madness, complete stupidity..

Yoichi Shimatsu: Yeah not as large areas but lets say a single mountain side for example will be clear cut and then that allows, well you need the organic mater to stop the radioactive you know fallout in the rain … If you don’t have threes, and the most effectively the forest three but mosses also, mosses and ferns gather enormous, mushrooms gather enormous amount of radiation. So when you cut the threes and delude the land like that all of that you know biota die and what you are left with is water going directly into the rocks into the soil and it break down into the underground water supply and the underground streams and this is why it is showing up in the wells now. And it surprised me frankly I would have thought it would be taking us a couple of years, a couple of seasons.

Jeff Rense: 10 months yeah. Well this is 15 miles and then there is Caesium in it, I just got the story and now there is a lot to talk about here. We have first of all TEPCO announcing today that they are actually going to drill into the containment vessel in reactor 2 to find out what the hell is going on in there. They don’t know, but they are don’t worry the plant is in cold shutdown, don’t worry everything is stable.

Yoichi Shimatsu: Obviously they got to take a video scope, they can not, you know as much as they can wheel these optical fibres through, I guess they just can’t get to the base so they are going to start dig down there and take a sample a reading of what is actually happening. So I think probably what they are looking for is the hole to the outside you know where the cracks are or burn holes not cracks. Where the fuel has burnt trough to the concrete and try to follow that through. That’s why they are going down to the bottom. There is nothing else really to look for they know there is broken fuel rods down there, so obviously they are looking for the fissure the cracks and you know torch out hole there of the melted metal and try to follow that and trace it down and run that R.. scope all the way down into the ground as far as they can see. This is obviously what they are after here, they should have done this a long time ago that’s… So one of their late ineffective measures you know this is after what the expression they use to say in the wild west, “closing the corral gate” after all the horses have run out. Well the horses are out, they are in the well water. 

Jeff Rense: Well what they did with many of the horses living in Fukushima prefecture is that they let them out of the corral and told them to go to the wrong pasture. They sent them in to the much worse radioactivity, this is nuts.

Yoichi Shimatsu: Well that too, that’s the problem, see this new report by this blue ribbon panel has come out that are very critical to the governments response. The government had this program called SPEEDI (System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information) which takes all the wind direction, all the meteorological readings at different altitudes. And then it calculates if there is a nuclear release, it will calculate the fallout. It’s not precise but it will get down to lets say a 3 m2 area which is very small, exactly like size of some peoples pool tables essentially, two billiard tables put together. And they will calculate where exactly the radiation is going and they knew exactly. The ridiculous circles that they made these 20 km and 30 km circles where just not how radiation is spread. It spreads along the directional path of where wind and water will take it. And they moved a lot of people to the north west which was closer to Fukushima city but right in the sort of path of the radiation going up the mountain. And this is something, the government had the data. And the real shocking story is a good colleague of mine an Japanese editor, a senior editor, in fact a top editor of one of the Tokyo news papers. He did the first interviews, in the first month after the March 11 disaster through the former head of the nuclear safety commission who revealed the existence of this SPEEDI program. After this was published, immediately a powerful team from some unnamed ministry, you know the information ministry was probably involved. Visited him, had a long meeting, then he ended up, when I talked to him he was just shaky. He was like someone who just had been through these Soviet psychiatric programs, he was shaky and was trembling … he was in the hospital for a few days, came out to find out that he has been demoted .. He was a top editor and then he was demoted. And so we saw that as a very concrete incident. And I have heard stories of editors of other papers, producers at the national TV station NHK being demoted, basically punished for trying to report accurately of what happened in Fukushima. NHK world service was shut down for a minute when they reported the accident at Ona the earthquake damage at Onagawa station to the north, and so there was a massive plant down on the press. Which despite the fact that many of the American presses interested in Fukushima sent teams over there, were stonewalled and blocked all the way. A lot of the reporters did try and ask hard questions, did start to raise the alarm. And then suddenly in the United States this long hand from the nuclear industry came out and quelched all reporting. And everyone knows that there in no reporting at all on what’s happening and the impact of radiation in the United States. This has been a year of a media clamp down, this is not one country, we are talking about the United States and Canada the self-proclaimed champions of free press, truth in reporting, objective reporting gagged. Totally gagged, and if they are gagged imagine what things are like in other countries…

Fukushima Cesium 14,600 Bq/Kg Wild Boar Same Chernobyl

There have been measurements taken by The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare now and radiation measurements of wild animals in Fukushima now show high levels of Cesium 137 in almost all types of animals. The ones that stand out the most are boar, bear and also deer. The measurements started 10/3/2011.

40 samples of boar were taken and results shows that levels of Cesium 137 to be as high as 14,600 Bq/Kg in one sample.

Sample from Nihonmatsushi: 676 Bq/Kg
Sample from Fukushimashi: 640 Bq/kg

Common pheasant: 402 Bq/kg
Duck: 165 Bq/kg
Japanese deer: 464 Bq/kg ( They took only one sample but the only one sample was irradiated.)

Fukushima Diary did a great job translating parts of the measurements and you can read the original story here https://fukushima-diary.com/2011/11/14600-bqkg-from-wild-boar-in-fukushima/
And the source https://mainichi.jp/area/fukushima/news/20111122ddlk07040267000c.html

Now what we have learned from Chernobyl is that radiation in animals actually vary from year to year. If we have a look at the diagram of Cesium 137 measurements collected in Moose from Sweden over the past years since the Chernobyl disaster we can clearly see how the radiation some years shoot up and the go down a bit again the next year. Although Sweden is far away from Chernobyl the levels are still high in animals.

We can see that in 1986 the year of the Chernobyl disaster the average levels in Moose were around 1500 Bq/Kg this is the maximum allowed level to be able to sell the meat in Sweden. The yearly consumption of 50 Kg of this meat would make you're own body radiate 1 millisieverts per year. This would be the equivalent to the background radiation but inside you're body. We see that even 20 years later in 2006 the radiation levels in Moose are still well above 1000 Bq/Kg in Sweden almost as high as in the years after the disaster however the next year 2007 the levels have dropped again. Why is that?

Well it has to do with what the animals eat. If for instance there is a good year with plenty of mushrooms then the radiation would again shoot up in animals that consume this sort of food. And if they move to areas that have a higher concentration of radiation then there would be the same effect. However if the animals move to less contaminated areas and there for instance where less mushrooms that year for them to eat then the radiation levels would go down again. And this is what we now see in Fukushima with the animals. But on thing is for certain, the radiation wont go away, this we can clearly see from Chernobyl and this stuff will stay with us for some 60 years before it's completely gone from the soil. Now Chernobyl  was "small" compared to Fukushima, the radiation and the whole situation is still out of control there with workers that tweet and say they are unable to even enter the buildings due to the radiation levels. So because of that and with the "smart" move by the Japanese Government along with TEPCO to start burning radioactive waste all over the country this I'm afraid is only the beginning.

This is what airborne radiation does to animal / humans.. Now what about the radiation that is pumped into the ocean at Fukushima?

Below you can read the measurements taken (in Japanese)
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MP3 Update with Jeff Rense and Michael Collins

This is an interview that Jeff Rense did with Michael Collins on November 7, 2011. Michael have been posting radiation readings online from the West LA area. And now we get to hear how radiation is affecting the crops in America and Canada. The nuclear fallout is spreading over the land and people should be aware of the radiation dangers.

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This is the first minutes of transcribed audio from the MP3.

Jeff Rense: OK lets get right back into it, Michael Collins joins us this hour, and if you go to the center column at rense.com and again go to that radiation symbol featured story box right in the center and look right up near the top and count down 1.2.3 West LA - Santa Monica Live Readings click on that and you go to the website of my next guest our colleague and friend Michael Collins who is hard at work along with Denise and he’s bringing us live readings from the West Los Angeles area. He was the first person to do this, to put online that I know about on the internet live Geiger counter readings he has an inspector which we were talking about last hour with Tim Flanigan which are back in stock and can be ordered tomorrow that’s really good news. The website is enviroreporter.com if you are not online right now if you are just click on Michael’s name you can go there and take a look an see what’s going on in West LA, hello Michael welcome back.

Michael Collins: Hey there Jeff, glad to be back, we were up in the high sierras and in eastern California Denise and I on a vacation which we took the opportunity to take a lot of radiation readings while having our radiation station here in LA still operating.

Jeff Rense: Yeah now as you heard the inspector is back in stock and for sale right now so that’s.. And there is some other very fine units out there as well, so that’s good news. It took a long time but finally they are available.

Michael Collins: Knowledge is power and when you think about the lack of coverage of the ongoing environmental catastrophe in this country being so limited that it’s really basically you. And just a few others that are reporting on this, covering this, you’re folks in the audience if they can spare the money would be incredibly, it would help their lives in so many ways and they can help us get a better understanding of what the radiation, how it’s impacting America and Canada and beyond.

Jeff Rense: You need to tell, first of all I’m sorry to say this but, in my personal humble opinion you shouldn’t buy anything made in Japan, not now, maybe not ever, but certainly not until they can prove or you can prove with a Geiger counter that it’s safe to consume, and that goes back at the story about the television news man in Fukushima who was showing everyone, hey there is no problem here and he ate everyday Fukushima produce for a couple of months, well he’s got adult onset Leukemia now which is very rare in a man of his age. So it’s not a joke it’s nothing to play around with. You’ll see people in stores with Geiger counters if you haven’t already, and they certainly should because what happens over here we grow our crops here nothing to worry about right.. Wrong, tell us why we should worry about crops grown here.

MP3 Fukushima Report - Jeff Rense and Yoichi Shimatsu

This Jeff Rense interview with Yoichi Shimatsu he talks about the Tokyo water situation, because there have now been done radiation readings showing that radiation is found around the mountain area outside of Tokyo where the city takes it's water from.

They have some technical difficulties in the beginning of this interview that they sort out later but Jeff Rense and Yoichi Shimatsu still manage to do another informative interview. You can also find this interview on rense.com.

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Transcribed first minutes:

Jeff Rense: OK it's time to get back with all of you good people, thanks for being here tonight. Going over to the far east to find our colleague Yoichi Shimatsu. How about Tokyo? Tokyo is finished they are saying, some of them.

Yoichi Shimatsu: Maybe I should just continue with a few thoughts from this last week.

Jeff Rense: Good go ahead.

Yoichi Shimatsu: OK, yeah well the first fallout from the article the.. written about the theft of the nuclear warhead from the United States from the main nuclear warhead assembly from Texas has got finally some fallout right away. The Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman he called the Deputy Ambassador in Washington accusing him of very serious violations of state security about Israel’s nuclear program. So serious that in fact it will take, in his own words, it will take Israel blood, sweat and tears to recover it's credibility. The first series of leaks happened in 2009 it was in the transition between Bush and Obama administration. And the Pentagon released a report US Defense Department released a report that Israel definitely have a nuclear weapons program and they also at this time released out of the American Security Agency that Israel had stolen or somehow appropriate American nuclear technology. So this is a 25 year career officer who was removed and is now taking trial in Israel on treason charges. So this is pretty amazing what is going on. You know a veteran like this probably made a few leaks, that is probably something’s have happened and this was enough for his dismissal and silence, not allowed to talk to the press. So we are seeing a very serious fallout, as a response to Lieberman Foreign Minister Liebermen I don't think the Japanese public want either sweat, tears or blood from Israel. Just give our money back that you stole from Japan while you transferred the nuclear weapons and paid them in deficiencies just as the German government paid the Israelis after world war 2. You owe the Japanese Billions of dollar for the damages you have caused with stocks pirates against the Fukushima nuclear reactor. And as we see this week all the children are lining up to go to cancer checks on their Thyroid glands, so this is very, very serious it’s going to be life long damage to many of these kids, and I think out of the courtesy and some dignity based on their own past experience, the Israelis don’t have to cry, they just have to return our money and pay for these medical checks for these children.

Jeff Rense: That’s the least that they should do, Tokyo Yoichi, Tokyo is in serious trouble their beginning to say that Tokyo is almost finished.

Japan Soil Contamination Map 300,000 bq Cesium

Story from The Japan Times

Okutama cesium level seen spiking

By MIZUHO AOKI
Staff writer

An aerial radiation survey of the capital and Kanagawa Prefecture has revealed the northwest tip of Tokyo was tainted by an unusually high amount of fallout, while most other areas showed normal levels, a science ministry official said Friday.

The results, released late Thursday, show that fallout from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant contaminated part of the mountainous Okutama region on Tokyo's western fringe. Radiation readings in the area were the highest of the two prefectures at 100,000 to 300,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per square meter.

The hourly radiation readings in the area hovered between 0.2 and 0.5 microsievert, but a few spots had higher levels between 0.5 and 1.0 microsieverts, science official Hirotaka Oku said.

Cesium ejected from the Fukushima plant was carried by winds in a southwestern direction through the northern parts of Tochigi and Gunma prefectures before heading south over eastern Gunma and western Saitama to reach Okutama, Oku said.

The geographic features of Okutama, notably its mountains and forests, made the area susceptible to catching radioactive materials, Oku added.

Photo By Kabacchi

Contaminated areas were also spotted in eastern Tokyo, including Katsushika and Edogawa wards, which gave off hourly readings of between 0.2 and 0.5 microsievert per hour.

The highest levels of cesium-134 and -137 found in eastern Tokyo were between 60,000 and 100,000 becquerels per square meter in Katsushika, Oku said.

Cesium-134 has a half-life of two years and cesium-137 a half-life of 30 years.

The aerial monitoring didn't find much contamination in Kanagawa, however. Tainted areas were found only in some spots in the northwestern part, including in the town of Yamakita, with some areas containing between 60,000 to 100,000 becquerels per square meter at the most.

The monitoring was conducted by a helicopter equipped with a special device to detect gamma rays emitted from radioactive isotopes on the ground. Based on the detected amounts, the ministry used a calculation method to determine radiation levels about 1 meter above the ground.

Gamma rays decay as they travel through the atmosphere, and the ministry used that principle to perform its calculations to determine radiation levels near the ground, Oku said.

According to the science ministry, radioactive materials spewed from the stricken plant were carried away by the wind and landed on the ground mostly via rain, contaminating areas far beyond the Tohoku region.

On receiving the results of the ministry's survey, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government started preparations to conduct special food monitoring on produce from the town of Okutama, official Shinji Tomonaga told The Japan Times on Friday.

"Okutama is known for its production of wasabi. So we will conduct tests on wasabi from Okutama next week," Tomonaga said.He said Okutama is the biggest producer of wasabi in Tokyo. In 2009, 23 out of the 26 tons of wasabi production in Tokyo was from Okutama, he said.

Tokyo also plans to conduct tests on "yamame," a kind of trout that Okutama is also famous for, "yuzu" (citron) and mushrooms.

The metropolitan government will conduct sampling tests on other produce from Okutama as well, but the details haven't been decided, Tomonaga said.

As for Katsushika and Edogawa, it has no plans to conduct additional sampling for now because no radioactive cesium was found in its latest sampling tests in late September on "komatsuna" (mustard plant), which is grown in the area, Tomonaga said. The aerial monitoring was conducted from Sept. 14 to 18 as part of an effort also involving prefectures that started in June.

Japan Radiation Higher Than Reported Fallout Widespread

I normally don't listen to Coast To Coast AM but once in a while when there is something interesting I do listen. This interview is from the 29.9.2011 show and we get to hear the guests, Linda Moulton Howe and Mitch Battros. But also a inteview with Frank E. Daulton, Ph.D. Professor of Economics and Linguistics at Ryukoku University in Kyoto done by Linda Moulton Howe.

Frank have been making his own measurements and are getting 0.40 uSv/h in Kyoto. For comparison the avarage radiation that is left after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Europe is around the 0.10-15 uSv/h. Now these figures will go up and down and also depend on where in Europe measurements are done, however this will give you an idea of what the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster did.



Now the 0.40 uSv/h measurement at ground level in Kyoto that is located 500km from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is about 4 times the radiation found in Europe. However one thing that Frank points out is that the 0.40 uSv/h is 10 times higher that what the Japanese government are reporting (0.03 uSv/h)

Why so low? Well the reason behind these low figures are because official measurements are done from up top tall government buildings. Some 20 meters from the ground in Kyoto, 30 meters in Osaka. This is around 90 feet.

This is a very big problem because this show that the Japanese government is not reporting the whole truth. Contaminated soil is all over Japan while the public is unaware of the dangers of the nuclear fallout. You might say that 0.40 uSv/h that's not so high.. Well the disaster is not under control yet and the Fukushima reactor units are continuing to contaminate the Japanese landscape and waters as we speak. This is not helped by the Japanese now burning radioactive waste all over the country spreading the radiation to the rest of the world. I'm affraid that radiation measurement readings will go up and up as time goes by. Not to talk about the Plutonium, Uranium, Strontium and Cesium released.

I read on enenews a very good comment that I think fits well here.

"The boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually.

We are the frog. Tepco is the cook. Fukushima the kitchen.

Facts.
Fukushima has enough radiation to be an apocalypse.
Radiation is not being properly surveyed to any extent.
The amount of radiation released has already began to impact humanity in multiple nations.
Radiation will be leaking constantly for months if not years on end.
The amount and dangers of oceanic contamination are truly unknown and frighteningly large in respects to china’s most recent surveying.
Japan has now abandoned the surveying of plutonium."

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This is from a meeting held August 29, 2011. The map show the measurements done from some 2200 soil samples. The highest readings of Caesium-137 was found in Okuma-machi with 15,450,000 becquerels/square meter. This is more than 10 times that of Chernobyl confiscation/closed zone level of cesium-137. And if combined with Caesium-134 the soil tests would be twice that 29,460,000 becquerels/square meter. 

So far 6 municipalities including Iitate-mura and Minami Soma City have locations that exceeded the Chernobyl confiscation/closed zone level of cesium-137.

Note: Caesium-137 half-life is 30 years and Caesium-134 half-life 2 years.

The soil contamination as the result of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident was reported on the August 29 meeting at the Ministry of Education and Science.

The survey found 34 locations in 6 municipalities exceeding the level of the confiscation/closed zone of the Chernobyl accident (1,480,000 becquerels/square meter of cesium-137 in soil). The purpose of the survey was to understand the radiation exposure of the residents. Prime Minister Kan said on August 27 that there might be locations where the residents wouldn't be able to return for a long time. The survey data validates the prime minister's comment.

According to the survey, the highest cesium-137 concentration in soil as of June 14 was in Okuma-machi in Fukushima Prefecture, within the no-entry evacuation zone, at 15,450,000 becquerels/square meter. If combined with cesium-134, the radioactive cesium concentration was 29,460,000 becquerels/square meter. 

Total 16 location in 4 municipalities (Okuma-machi, Futaba-machi, Namie-machi, Tomioka-machi) exceeded 3,000,000 becquerels/square meter in cesium-137 concentration. The area with the high cesium-137 concentration extends northwest from the nuclear power plant. In total, 6 municipalities including Iitate-mura and Minami Soma City had the locations that exceeded the Chernobyl confiscation/closed zone level of cesium-137. The Ministry measured the soil samples from about 2,200 locations.