Though I’m not a “google rank mania” of website, I quit checking the traffic last November.
It was declining since last September and I thought people who really care about Fukushima would stay with me to fight. Since then, I’ve been concentrating on how not to let Fukushima forgotten by the world.

About one month ago, the traffic picked up, and it became almost explosive. It’s been stably high until now. I have no idea why.
I founded the company and obtained visa. Everything is new to me, and also, my case is pretty new to Romania as well. Everything is full of problems.
Even about the finance, I was having a lot of problems last week and it was difficult to keep myself concentrating. However, somewhat it’s working. I seem to have gotten through.
As I’m walking (or maybe crawling) where there is no path, I got to learn you should never give up.
There is always a hole to get through. Not to mention, the smaller you are, the easier to get through.
You may be worried, frightened, and desperate. but fortunately, tomorrow is never what you imagine.

One month from now, probably everybody would be talking about the election in Japan. International news about Japan would be all about the election as well. However, there is almost least we can do to the election result anymore.
The election process has actually been on-going for months, years and decades. It is too late for us to try to change anything, at least in Japan.
Most probably LDP would win. Nuclear plants will be restarted, people’s rights are dangerously restricted, which would push us activists to the corner. This is one of the reasons why I got out of Japan 2 years ago.
The future is already decided.

From Bloomberg/Newsweek (5/23/2013):

Niger Terrorist Attacks Leave 23 Dead as Areva Staff Hurt (2)

At least 23 people were reported dead in attacks on a Niger military base and a Areva SA (AREVA) uranium mine as one of the Islamist groups that prompted French strikes on neighboring Mali claimed responsibility.

Radio France International cited government officials it didn’t identify for the death toll. Interior Minister Abdou Labo told reporters in Niamey, the capital, that at least 19 people are confirmed dead, including 18 soldiers. Four of the attackers were killed, he said, and a fifth was holding hostages at the Agadez base.

Areva, the French maker of nuclear fuel and reactors, said one of its workers died and 14 were injured at the site near Arlit, 240 kilometers (149 miles) north of Agadez.

Forces in Niger have stepped up “security on all of our sites” following the assault at about 5:30 a.m. local time at the Somair uranium mine near Arlit in the north, Areva said in a statement. The injured people were transferred to the Somair hospital, Areva said.

Areva, which produced more than 4,500 metric tons of uranium in Niger last year out of total production of 9,760 tons, increased security measures at its sites in the West African nation after seven workers employed by the company and a unit of Vinci SA (DG) were kidnapped in 2010, and again as French military forces intervened to oust rebels in Mali earlier this year.

Responsibility for the attacks was claimed by the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, known by their French acronym Mujao, according to RFI. The group is among Islamist insurgents, including al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, who took over most of northern Mali until the French campaign to push them out.
Sahara Desert

http://www.10news.com/news/investigations/team-10-obtains-songs-trek-a-s...

TEPCO plans to build a mock reactor in Fukushima to work out issues related to removing fuel and dismantling the reactors. The facility will include a to scale model of the GE Mark 1 containment system used at Fukushima Daiichi. The facility will also be the basis for developing the robot technology needed to conduct the work. Both the government and TEPCO will be working on the project. NHK doesn’t say where it will be built but a worker at the plant hinted it may be in Nahara.
This article would not be possible without the extensive efforts of the SimplyInfo research team
Join the conversation at chat.simplyinfo.org

All content is copyright SimplyInfo.org. Content may also be copyright of other specific original authors or creators and was reproduced here with limited permission. While we welcome the sharing of information or promoting our work, please do so with respect to the large amount of ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/risingtide_chi/8789157968/in/photostream/

Vattenfall has announced it is planning to operate its newest nuclear units at Forsmark and Ringhals for up to 60 years thanks to an extensive upgrade program.

Introducing important tweets as [Express] for simultaneous updates.

<Translate>

My friend was hospitalized for cerebral infarction last night as well. Fortunately it wasn’t so serious, he can leave the hospital soon but he’s still in early 40s. This kind of the stories can be heard often. I talk to my friends in Tokyo but they try to avoid that topic. I don’t think they don’t know that but they just don’t want to hear it anymore.

<End>

「友達も昨夜、脳梗塞で倒れました。幸い、軽くて、すぐに退院できるらしいから、でも 四十代前半なんですよ。こういう話は普通に聞こえてきます。東京の知り合いと話しても、もう聞きたがっていないというか、話が分からないわけではなくて、 分っていて聞かない人達ばかりなってきている」

— yumi☆gj☆☆Anti-Nukeさん (@ygjumi) 2013年5月23日

Iori Mochizuki
 
Thank you for your support.
Now your donation will be spent on the next research for the possibile Japanese village in Romania. (560€)
At this moment, 468 € to go.
 
 

According to Tepco, high level of Strontium-90 is still measured in sub-drain of reactor2 and 3. The data of reactor1 is not published for some reason.

The sampling date was 11/12/2012. Tepco took 6 months to publish the data.

They measured 56,000 Bq/m3 of Strontium-90 from sub-drain of reactor2. They also measured 67 Bq/m3 of Strontium-90 from sub-drain of reactor3.

They also measured significantly level of Tritium from both of the sub-drain.

It was 470,000 Bq/m3 in sub-drain of reactor2, 97,000 Bq/m3 in sub-drain of reactor3. From the one of reactor2, they also measured 430,000 Bq/m3 of all β nuclide.

Tepco admits it’s entirely due to Fukushima accident.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/subsurface_130522-e.pdf

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/subsurface_130522-j.pdf

According to Tepco, Plutonium-239/240 were detected at 3 locations around Fukushima nuclear plant. The sampling dates are early April of 2013.

0.013 Bq/m3 from North of rector5&6 discharge channel.

0.0014 Bq/m3 from around south discharge channel.

0.0057 Bq/m3 from 3km offshore of Fukushima nuclear plant.

As to the detection of Plutonium-239/240 in 3km offshore of Fukushima nuclear plant, Tepco denied the connection with Fukushima nuclear accident as below,

Given that the density level of Pu-239+Pu-240 detected at 3km Offshore of Fukushima Daiichi NPS,
Upper Layer on April 2, 2013 is within the range of the past density measurements conducted along
the seacoasts of 1F and 2F, it cannot be stated with absolute certainty that the presence of these
particles is due to the accident.

However they admitted the connection with Fukushima nuclear accident about the Plutonium-239/240 detection from around south discharge channel.

Given that the density level of Pu-239+Pu-240 detected at 1F, Around South Discharge Channel on
April 9, 2013 is higher than the past density measurements conducted along the seacoasts of 1F
and 2F, it can be stated that the presence of these particles is due to the accident.

Man loses sight due to Kayelekera radiation, SUNDAY TIMES, 19 MAY 2013   KAREN MSISKA  It is all doom and gloom for a Kayelekera Uranium Mine ex-employee who has lost his sight, his job and any means of eking out a leaving to fend for his extended family.

Claims Toro’s uranium project may struggle May 20, 2013 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-20/claims-toro27s-uranium-project-not-financially-viable/4700982 An economist is warning that the first proposed uranium mine in Western Australia may struggle to get off the ground.

The comments are made in a report, commissioned by Greens Senator Scott Ludlam and environmental groups, into the viability of Toro Energy’s proposed Wiluna project.

The study by ‘Economics at Large’ indicates the project’s profitability relies on a number of sensitive factors. The paper’s author, Roderick Campbell, says Toro may struggle to make the project viable.

“The Wiluna project sits very high on the cost curve of global uranium projects,” he said. ”It’s difficult to see why any of the major uranium players would invest in this project when there’s a lot of cheaper projects out there.”

Toro has released a statement saying the Wiluna project has won WA and Federal Government environmental approval to proceed after a rigorous three and a half year assessment process. It says, as a result, there is significant market interest from international energy utilities and global resource investors in the Wiluna project.

Senator Ludlam claims the project will just manage to be financially viable if Toro can avoid clean-up and decommissioning costs.He says Toro has not submitted a costed mine closure plan and the numbers are against the company when the cost of the clean-up is factored in.

Toro is yet to respond to that particular claim.