Fukushima man-made catastrophe hitting West Coast is no hoax

Commission reports government, regulators and Tepco collusion betraying human right to safety.

Findings of the 19-member commission on the ongoing Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, based on the experts' six-month investigation, conclude that it is a man-made event that could have been prevented, as Japan's high-level radiation in air, water, food and dairy products bombards California.

"A report released last week by the Diet's Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission backs what many members of the public have long believed: The fiasco at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was 'a profoundly man-made disaster — that could have and should have been foreseen and prevented,'" reports The Japan Times.

The Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, concluded the panel, "was the result of collusion between the government, the regulators and Tepco, and the lack of governance by said parties. They effectively betrayed the nation's right to be safe from nuclear accidents." "

The commission asserted that the direct causes of the accident were foreseeable prior to the March 11, 2011, disaster. But Tepco, the regulatory bodies, and the trade and industry ministry promoting nuclear power failed to develop the most basic safety requirements, including assessing damage probability, preparing for collateral damage containment and developing evacuation plans. Both Tepco and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) were aware of the need for structural reinforcement at the Fukushima No. 1 plant to meet new guidelines, stated the commission, but rather than demand that it be done, NISA allowed Tepco to act "autonomously" and none of the required reinforcements were done by 3/11. "

The commission also found that although NISA and Tepco were aware of the risk of total electricity outages and reactor core damage from tsunamis since 2006, NISA failed to create new regulations and Tepco neglected to take any protective measures. "

There were many opportunities for taking preventative measures prior to March 11. The accident occurred because Tepco did not take these measures, and NISA and the Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) went along," the report states.

As the 16-month Fukushima nightmare continues festering, approximately 160,000 Japanese nuclear refugees still live away from their homes because of the nuclear fallout. Americans, however, have remained at home, unaware that they, too, are in the danger zone.

Dangerous levels of Fukushima radiation continue to bombard United States as officials turn blind eye

United States officials have turned a blind eye to Fukushima's dangerous levels of radioactive materials bombarding Americans, according to University of California and Hatrick Penry's research. "

Despite the fact that University of California and this reporter's tests show high radiation in the air, water, food and dairy products in this state, the state and federal governments cut off special testing for Fukushima radionuclides more than half a year ago," states Hatrick Penry on Friday.'

Thursday, ENEWS reported that California prunes and almonds have detectable levels of cesium-134, "A fingerprint for radiation from Fukushima Daiichi."

(Watch "Who says Fukushima fallout is a hoax? Seriously?" embedded YouTube on this page, left.)

"High radiation readings in Santa Monica and Los Angeles air during a 42-day period from late December to late January strongly suggest that radiation is increasing in the region including along the coast in Ventura County," reported Pasadena Weekly on July 5.

"Southern California is still getting hit by Fukushima radiation at alarmingly high levels that will inevitably increase as the main bulk of polluted Pacific Ocean water reaches North America in the next two years," Michael Collins wrote in his recent Pasadena Weekly article, Radioactive Nightmare: Government turns a blind eye as fallout from Fukushima heads our way.

According to indications by Collins' research and that of the EPA's radiation readings, there's a strong possibility that uranium peroxide buckyballs are sloshing around in the waters off Southern California.

Buckyballs are soccer ball-shaped uranium-filled nanospheres created from the millions of tons of fresh and salt water used to try to cool down three molten cores of the stricken reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. “

In the United States, cesium-134 and cesium-137 wet dispersion values were higher than for Chernobyl fallout, in part due to the US being further downwind,” Greg Wetherbee, a chemist with USGS, told the Brattleboro Reformer newspaper. “With Chernobyl, there was more opportunity for plume dispersion.”

Collins asserts, "A March 6 Department of Biological Sciences study conducted at California State Long Beach found that kelp along the coast of California was heavily impacted by radioactive Iodine-131 one month after the meltdowns began. The virulent and deadly isotope was detected at 250 times levels the researchers said were normal in the kelp before the disaster.

"Radioactive fallout in St. Louis, Mo., rainfall, which has been monitored at http://Potrblog.com since the crisis began, has been repeatedly so hot that levels have been reached that make it unsafe for children and pregnant women. An Oct.17, 2011, St. Louis rainstorm was measured on video at 2.76 millirems per hour, or more than 270 times background levels."

"Millions of tons of seawater and fresh water have been used to cool the melted cores and spent fuel rods, generating millions of tons of irradiated water. The Kuroshio Current is transporting a significant amount of this escaping radiation from Fukushima Daiichi across the Pacific toward the West Coast."

California Department of Public Health stopped monitoring Fukushima fallout when its Radiologic Health Branch issued its last report on Oct. 10, 2011. Collins says that report showed "an alarming rise in cesium-137 in Cal Poly San Luis Obispo dairy farm milk beginning June 14, 2011, when it tested 2.95 picocuries per liter (pCi/l) and steadily rising in four subsequent tests until it was 5.91 pCi/l.

"The hot milk was at twice the allowable amount of this radionuclide in drinking water, according to the EPA’s 3.0 pCi/l limit."

After that, testing stopped.

"Even detections of radioactive sulphur-35 in San Diego and plutonium-239 in Riverside did nothing to pique the interest of regulators," reports Collins.

That was over a year ago that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) suspended testing in the Pacific for Fukushima radiation after concluding no radiation was detected.

Last August, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a secret pact with her Japanese counterpart to continue importing Japan's untested food for American dinner tables.

“The lesson to be learned is that both the U.S. and Japan suffer from very lax regulation, a too-cozy relationship between nuclear regulators and the industry they are to regulate,” said UC Santa Cruz nuclear policy lecturer and president of the nuclear policy nonprofit Committee to Bridge the Gap.

"This can lead to dangerous outcomes. This was not unanticipated. Yet the need for immediate information was undeniable.”

Collins concludes, "We are on our own in this Fukushima nightmare."

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