World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/15-4

Japan Radioactivity Could Enter Food Chain, Children at Risk
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/15-1

Japan Nuclear Crisis: 'This Could Become Chernobyl on Steroids'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/03/15-0

Mother Nature and Nuclear Power
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/15-2

The Idiocy and Hubris of Engineers: Will GE Get Whacked for the Catastrophic Failure of its Nuke Plants in Fukushima?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/15

Understanding the Threat of Nuclear Radiation
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/03/16-1

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From Hiroshima to Fukushima

The Nation
by Jonathan Schell

03/15/11

The horrible and heartbreaking events in Japan present a strange concatenation of disasters. First, the planet unleashed one of its primordial shocks, an earthquake, of a magnitude greater than any previously recorded in Japan. The earthquake, in turn, created the colossal tsunami, which, when it struck the country?s northeastern shores, pulverized everything in its path, forming a filthy wave made of mud, cars, buildings, houses, airplanes and other debris...

http://www.thenation.com/article/159238/hiroshima-fukushima


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Plutonium warning for Fukushima 3: MOX alert
Alerte Plutonium Fukushima 3: MOX et INTOX

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Japan.php#1

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Safety on the Cheap

Robert Reich, Truthout: 'Can we please agree that in the real world corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only - to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible? The New York Times reports that G.E. marketed the Mark 1 boiling water reactors, used in TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi plant, as cheaper to build than other reactors because they used a comparatively smaller and less expensive containment structure.'

http://www.truth-out.org/safety-cheap68492



Nuclear Disarmament Is People's Work

Joe Copeland, YES! Magazine: 'The people of Hiroshima live with the devastating legacy of nuclear war, juxtaposed with the city's dedication to working for world peace. A mindful American visitor to Hiroshima can't avoid asking: Are people in the United States too comfortable with the existence of nuclear weapons? How do you motivate the public to care about the nuclear threat and instill the hope to work toward change? At times it seems that a good jolt of fear might be the answer. Maybe then we would finally wake from denial and do something about the dangers of nuclear arms: the risk that one of the nuclear powers may choose to use the ultimate weapon of mass destruction, the bomb's distortion of power relationships among nations, the potential for accident or terror to unleash some catastrophe.'

http://www.truth-out.org/nuclear-disarmament-peoples-work68515

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How does radiation travel, and what kinds of damage can it do?

io9

Gamma rays travel like any other electromagnetic waves - cutting a fairly straight line through world. They can move through a vacuum, or through air or water. They can also cut through light elements like aluminum or most metals. ...

http://io9.com/#!5782367/how-does-radiation-travel-and-what-kinds-of-damage-can-it-do

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Prof. Eli Stern reminds of Repacholi's /WHO/UN deny of Chernobyl disaster
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/243635582c6761de?hl=de



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http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=World+Health+Organi
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http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Repacholi
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