According to Chiba prefectural government, high level of radiation was measured beside the class A river, Ohori gawa.

It was in Kashiwa city, where is known to be hot spot.

On 5/9/2013, they took the samples at 18 points. The highest reading was 1.4 μSv/h (50cm above the ground).

They measured over 1μSv/h at 5 points. Prefectural government blockaded the areas.

All of those 5 points are at the water edge. There is a possibility that the river water is contaminated.

↓ The sign of no entry

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Danger

Notice : At the water edge of the river, over 1μSv/h was measured. This is off limit.

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https://twitter.com/gemaropa/status/334235907576176640

http://www.pref.chiba.lg.jp/kakan/press/2013/0513ohorigawa.html

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According to Tepco, the radioactivity density of reactor1 sub-drain increased in the end of February 2013, and it hasn’t been decreasing until 5/14/2013.

Usually they pump up the ground water from sub-drain to reduce the buoyancy against the reactor building. Reactor1 and 2 have 27 sub-drains in total.

However, since 311, they cannot use sub-drain anymore, but only analyze the radioactive material contained in water.

The increasing radioactive density in sub-drain suggest the leakage of contaminated water is increasing in reactor1.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/subsurface_130514-e.pdf

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Indian Point To Become First Nuclear Plant To Operate With Expired License http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/05/13/indian-point-to-become-first-nuclear-plant-to-operate-with-expired-license/ License To Expire In Late Sept, Renewal Process Will Take At Least A Year May 13, 2013 TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — One of two reactors at the Indian Point nuclear plantnorth of New York City will soon be operating with an expired license.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials said Monday that the situation resulted in part from a complicated license-renewal process for nuclear reactors, the Journal News reported.

Indian Point 2′s 40-year license expires on Sept. 28. NRC regional administrator Bill Dean said that’s at least a year before any decision will be made on whether to extend it for another 20 years. Dean said the reactor can keep operating because Entergy Nuclear, its owner, filed for renewal more than five years before the expiration date.

Dean and other NRC staff members will hold a public meeting in Tarrytown on Tuesday about the plant’s 2012 safety assessment.

Environmental groups planned to release their own safety reports on Indian Point on Tuesday.

According to the NRC, Indian Point will have the only nuclear reactor in the country operating without a license.

Environmental groups have called for the plant’s closure due to its location in a densely populated area.Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for the closure of Indian Point, the Journal News reported.

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They were decontaminating the embankment of an elementary school in Koriyama city Fukushima. They haven’t decontaminated it for 2 years.

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郡山市内の小学校の土手が除染されていました。２年経っての除染です。つづく twitter.com/totolis2940/st…

— ゆうぎりさん (@totolis2940) 2013年5月14日

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They made a huge hole in the playground and it’s covered with blue sheet. Probably they are going to dump the decontamination waste into the hole.

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つづき 小学校の校庭には大きな穴が掘られていて、穴の中はブルーシートで覆われています。小学校の土手を除染した土を、この穴に埋めるんでしょうね。 twitter.com/totolis2940/st…

— ゆうぎりさん (@totolis2940) 2013年5月14日

Related article..Sendai city to take back decontamination waste from purification center to dump in elementary school [URL]

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Has such absolute insanity infected the minds of the Western powers to such a degree that they actually would attack Iran, and in so doing destroy the entire Gulf State region, further irradiate the entire planet and themselves, and quite possibly set off World War III? Or is it all just smoke-and-mirrors, scare tactics and rhetoric, and saner minds will in fact prevail?

Let us all hope and pray for the latter.

Good-bye Dubai? Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Facilities would leave the Entire Gulf States Region virtually Uninhabitable By Wade Stone Global Research, May 11, 2013 “…….Think “Fukushima x 10”:  Fukushima is, without question, the world’s worst nuclear disaster to date. In fact, many scientists believe, and with good reason, that the Fukushima incident, which is far from over, is the world’s worst
environmental catastrophe.

“While the long-term repercussions of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are yet to be fully assessed, they are far more serious than
those pertaining to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, which resulted in almost one million deaths (New Book Concludes – Chernobyl death toll: 985,000, mostly from cancer” Global Research, September 10, 2010. For a full account of Fukushima, see “Global Research Online Interactive Reader Series, Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War, The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation (Michel Chossudovsky, editor).

Now imagine several large nuclear reactors (Iran’s Bushehr reactor output, for example, is 1000 megawatts, compared to Fukushima Daiichi’s largest reactor which had an output of 784 megawatts), along with several uranium enrichment plants, and certainly military storage sites and quite likely even uranium mines, all bombed to dust within a matter of days.

Moreover, unlike the Fukushima Daiichi reactors which suffered only partial meltdowns with much of the fuel rods and spent
fuel storages remaining mostly intact, “all” of Iran’s nuclear fuel would be exploded into the atmosphere. And let us not forget that the
US-Israeli military ordinances employed to destroy Iran’s nuclear
facilities would certainly be tipped with depleted uranium, and very
likely would include some mini-nukes.

Indeed, in regards nuclear disasters and environmental catastrophes,
Fukushima would absolutely pale in comparison to that caused by the
bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites. The nuclear fallout from such an
event would be extreme, to put it mildly. Tens, if not hundreds of
thousands of innocent Iranians would likely die within the first year
of such a strike, while millions more would die within a decade or two
of some form of radiation-induced cancer. And since a significant
portion of that nuclear fallout would end up either immediately, or
over the course of the next weeks and months in the Arabian Desert,
where the winds, year after year, would gather it up along with the
particles of sand and dust into gigantic roiling irradiated storms
(remember, “hundreds” of such sand and dust storms annually), not a
person living anywhere in the Gulf State region would be safe from
exposure. The Persian Gulf, too, would soon be so irradiated and toxic
and lifeless that it might as well be renamed the New Dead Sea.
Some statistics worth recalling: The half-life of cesium-137 is just
over 31 years, while that of strontium-90 is approximately 29 years.
Plutonium-239, the most dangerous of the above-mentioned radioactive
substances, has a half-life of 24,110 years. And uranium, which is the
primary target and which will make up the largest percentage of the
fallout, has a half-life ranging between 700 million to nearly 4.5
billion years, depending on the type of uranium used—U-235 or U-238.
It’s also worth noting that it takes an estimated 20 x the half-life
years listed for the radiation from such contamination to dissipate
entirely.

Of course, a lot of that radiation would also enter the jet stream,
which would then carry it around the globe, depositing it as nuclear
fallout everywhere. No nation, no body of water, would be spared. It
takes but “one” inhaled or ingested “hot” particle to produce a
life-threatening cancer.

Calling for, even so much as contemplating, such a genocidal event is
madness; actually carrying it out would be insanity beyond
description.

We must conclude, therefore, that the US-NATO-Israeli alliance is
bluffing. Shortly before each and every scheduled P5+1 negotiations
regarding Iran’s nuclear program, the corporate/government controlled
mainstream media in the West ratchets up the threats, with Israel
insisting that they will soon bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities if their
nuclear program isn’t shut down. We’ve been hearing these same threats
for more than a decade now. The very fact that the other Gulf States
in the region are in support of the US-NATO-Israeli alliance also
suggests that such threats are all smoke-and-mirrors, attempts to
scare Iran into accepting whatever demands US-NATO and Israel want.

Surely, the Gulf State monarchs especially are aware enough to realize
that, even if Iran is planning to develop a nuclear weapon (for which
no evidence whatsoever exists), a nuclear-armed Iran would be far less
of a danger to them than a bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which
would positively guarantee their demise. Even Israel, which is only
1100 kilometers away from Iran, and also experiences regular severe
sand and dust storms, would likely suffer dire consequences as a
result of the radiation fallout from such an attack.

Has such absolute insanity infected the minds of the Western powers to such a degree that they actually would attack Iran, and in so doing
destroy the entire Gulf State region, further irradiate the entire planet and themselves, and quite possibly set off World War III? Or is it all just smoke-and-mirrors, scare tactics and rhetoric, and saner minds will in fact prevail?

Let us all hope and pray for the latter.http://www.globalresearch.ca/good-bye-dubai-bombing-irans-nuclear-facilities-would-leave-the-entire-gulf-states-region-virtually-uninhabitable/5334737

Regulatory panel delivers setback to restart plans for San Onofre nuclear plant http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/05/13/37250/regulatory-panel-delivers-setback-to-restart-plans/ Ben Bergman | May 13th, 2013 Southern California Edison’s plan to restart the San Onofre nuclear power plant was dealt a setback today by federal regulators when it recommended the utility must go through a licensing review process before the plant can be restarted. Read the findings below.

The decision – if it stands – could potentially delay a restart of the facility for years.
Ever since San Onofre closed in January 2012, Edison has been trying to get the plant re-started as quickly as possible.

Environmental groups have wanted the opposite. And now they may have gotten their wish of grinding the process to a halt. ”This is a complete victory,” said Bill Walker, spokesman for Friends of the Earth. That’s the environmental group that petitioned regulators to require Edison to go through a lengthy judicial-style license review before restarting the plant.

The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board – part of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) – sided with the group Monday. ”The ruling assures there will be a trial-like formal process with a judge where we and the public will have our day in court,” said Walker.

Edison would only say it’s reviewing the decision. It will most certainly file an appeal.
And, the NRC cautions that environmental groups shouldn’t pop the champagne yet. The agency’s staff could still approve Edison’s re-start plan, before any judicial hearings.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel

Wind, Solar, & Natural Gas Up In Europe — Coal & Nuclear Down http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/13/wind-solar-natural-gas-up-in-europe-coal-nuclear-down/#xMfKPr55HOwV0sP4.99    (Good graphics in this article) May 13, 2013 Zachary Shahan Following up on the report I just published regarding EPIA’s 2012–2017 European and global solar PV report, below are some really interesting charts I wanted to highlight. Basically, they show that solar PV, wind power, and natural gas capacity has grown substantially in the EU while coal, nuclear, and oil capacity has fallen.

Russia to emerging countries: We’ll build, operate your nuclear reactors Smart Planet, By Mark Halper | May 13, 2013, “…..State nuclear power company Rosatom, “Is offering a special package deal to build and operate nuclear power stations abroad in a bid to win business from developing countries, a company official was quoted on Monday as saying,” Reuters reports. “The offer to ‘Build, Own, Operate’ (BOO), also includes financing to countries seeking to build nuclear plants.”

Rosatom, which competes against the likes of Toshiba’s Westinghouse subsidiary and France’s Areva to construct reactors around the world, has in the past handed over the day-to-day operations of finished reactors to utilities. Now, it’s offering to hang around on site after completion.

“Under the BOO model, Rosatom not only builds the nuclear plant, but also owns it and runs it for up to sixty years,” Reuters writes, citing French publication Le Figaro. “Rosatom also delivers nuclear fuel to the plants.”

“With this model, we are fully responsible for the plant’s security,” Le Figaro quoted Rosatom deputy CEO Nikolai Spassky as saying…… http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/russia-to-emerging-countries-well-build-operate-your-nuclear-reactors/19573

Who Will Drop the Next Nuclear Bomb? We ignore the ever-growing global arsenal of nuclear weapons at our peril. The Nation,  Nick Turse  May 13, 2013 “……..Nuclear Horror: Then and Now The first nuclear attack on a civilian population center, the U.S. strike on Hiroshima, left that city “uniformly and extensively devastated,” according to astudy carried out in the wake of the attacks by the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey.  “Practically the entire densely or moderately built-up portion of the city was leveled by blast and swept by fire… The surprise, the collapse of many buildings, and the conflagration contributed to an unprecedented casualty rate.”  At the time, local health authorities reported that 60% of immediate deaths were due to flash or flame burns and medical investigators estimated that 15%-20% of the deaths were caused by radiation.

Witnesses “stated that people who were in the open directly under the explosion of the bomb were so severely burned that the skin was charred dark brown or black and that they died within a few minutes or hours,” according to the 1946 report.  “Among the survivors, the burned areas of the skin showed evidence of burns almost immediately after the explosion.  At first there was marked redness, and other evidence of thermal burns appeared within the next few minutes or hours.”

Many victims kept their arms outstretched because it was too painful to allow them to hang at their sides and rub against their bodies.  One survivor recalled seeing victims “with both arms so severely burned that all the skin was hanging from their arms down to their nails, and others having faces swollen like bread, losing their eyesight. It was like ghosts walking in procession…  Some jumped into a river because of their serious burns. The river was filled with the wounded and blood.”…… http://www.thenation.com/article/174295/who-will-drop-next-nuclear-bomb#

Solar Citizens Officially Launches Today http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=3736 by Energy Matters, 14 May 13 Solar Citizens aims to bring together existing and future solar owners in Australia and to help see solar installed on every suitable rooftop in the nation.  The project is an offshoot of 100% Renewable;  a non-partisan organisation established to help move Australia towards a renewable energy future.

   While the solar revolution is well under way and millions of systems have been installed in Australia; there are some dark clouds on the horizon. ”But despite the many reasons to go solar, some big energy companies don’t want to see Australians take back control of their own energy needs. They want to make connecting to solar harder, not easier,” says part of a statement on the Solar Citizens web site.

According to Solar Citizens, Australians have invested $8 billion so far in small scale solar power systems.
Calculations performed by national solar provider Energy Matters estimate that collectively, the 1 million plus solar panel arrays in the nation will generate around $913 million worth of electricity (retail value) over the next 12 months – making these households a threat to Big Energy in Australia.

Solar Citizens says it will strive to protect the rights of solar households, lobbying to ensure they are treated with respect and paid a fair price for the power they contribute to the mains grid. With potentially nearly 2 million households as participants including solar hot water system owners; the group could become a powerful voice.

Solar Citizens’ first two campaigns focus on looming issues in Tasmania and Queensland. The Queensland campaign highlights concerns regarding a proposal from the Queensland Competition Authority to move solar power owners on to a different electricity billing system that could see increased charges for solar households.

The campaign for Tasmania is in relation to the privatising Aurora’s electricity retailer arm, to occur in January 2014. There are fears that as a result, solar feed-in tariffs could be slashed. Both campaigns involve petitions that will be presented to relevant authorities.

Wind, Solar, & Natural Gas Up In Europe — Coal & Nuclear Down http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/13/wind-solar-natural-gas-up-in-europe-coal-nuclear-down/#xMfKPr55HOwV0sP4.99    (Good graphic sin this article) May 13, 2013 Zachary Shahan Following up on the report I just published regarding EPIA’s 2012–2017 European and global solar PV report, below are some really interesting charts I wanted to highlight. Basically, they show that solar PV, wind power, and natural gas capacity has grown substantially in the EU while coal, nuclear, and oil capacity has fallen.

Has such absolute insanity infected the minds of the Western powers to such a degree that they actually would attack Iran, and in so doing destroy the entire Gulf State region, further irradiate the entire planet and themselves, and quite possibly set off World War III? Or is it all just smoke-and-mirrors, scare tactics and rhetoric, and saner minds will in fact prevail?

Let us all hope and pray for the latter.

Good-bye Dubai? Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Facilities would leave the Entire Gulf States Region virtually Uninhabitable By Wade Stone Global Research, May 11, 2013 “…….Think “Fukushima x 10”:  Fukushima is, without question, the world’s worst nuclear disaster to
date. In fact, many scientists believe, and with good reason, that the Fukushima incident, which is far from over, is the world’s worst
environmental catastrophe.

“While the long-term repercussions of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are yet to be fully assessed, they are far more serious than
those pertaining to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, which resulted in almost one million deaths (New Book Concludes – Chernobyl death toll: 985,000, mostly from cancer” Global Research, September 10, 2010. For a full account of Fukushima, see “Global Research Online Interactive Reader Series, Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War, The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation (Michel Chossudovsky, editor).

Now imagine several large nuclear reactors (Iran’s Bushehr reactor output, for example, is 1000 megawatts, compared to Fukushima
Daiichi’s largest reactor which had an output of 784 megawatts), along with several uranium enrichment plants, and certainly military storage sites and quite likely even uranium mines, all bombed to dust within a matter of days.

Moreover, unlike the Fukushima Daiichi reactors which suffered only partial meltdowns with much of the fuel rods and spent
fuel storages remaining mostly intact, “all” of Iran’s nuclear fuel would be exploded into the atmosphere. And let us not forget that the
US-Israeli military ordinances employed to destroy Iran’s nuclear
facilities would certainly be tipped with depleted uranium, and very
likely would include some mini-nukes.

Indeed, in regards nuclear disasters and environmental catastrophes,
Fukushima would absolutely pale in comparison to that caused by the
bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites. The nuclear fallout from such an
event would be extreme, to put it mildly. Tens, if not hundreds of
thousands of innocent Iranians would likely die within the first year
of such a strike, while millions more would die within a decade or two
of some form of radiation-induced cancer. And since a significant
portion of that nuclear fallout would end up either immediately, or
over the course of the next weeks and months in the Arabian Desert,
where the winds, year after year, would gather it up along with the
particles of sand and dust into gigantic roiling irradiated storms
(remember, “hundreds” of such sand and dust storms annually), not a
person living anywhere in the Gulf State region would be safe from
exposure. The Persian Gulf, too, would soon be so irradiated and toxic
and lifeless that it might as well be renamed the New Dead Sea.
Some statistics worth recalling: The half-life of cesium-137 is just
over 31 years, while that of strontium-90 is approximately 29 years.
Plutonium-239, the most dangerous of the above-mentioned radioactive
substances, has a half-life of 24,110 years. And uranium, which is the
primary target and which will make up the largest percentage of the
fallout, has a half-life ranging between 700 million to nearly 4.5
billion years, depending on the type of uranium used—U-235 or U-238.
It’s also worth noting that it takes an estimated 20 x the half-life
years listed for the radiation from such contamination to dissipate
entirely.

Of course, a lot of that radiation would also enter the jet stream,
which would then carry it around the globe, depositing it as nuclear
fallout everywhere. No nation, no body of water, would be spared. It
takes but “one” inhaled or ingested “hot” particle to produce a
life-threatening cancer.

Calling for, even so much as contemplating, such a genocidal event is
madness; actually carrying it out would be insanity beyond
description.

We must conclude, therefore, that the US-NATO-Israeli alliance is
bluffing. Shortly before each and every scheduled P5+1 negotiations
regarding Iran’s nuclear program, the corporate/government controlled
mainstream media in the West ratchets up the threats, with Israel
insisting that they will soon bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities if their
nuclear program isn’t shut down. We’ve been hearing these same threats
for more than a decade now. The very fact that the other Gulf States
in the region are in support of the US-NATO-Israeli alliance also
suggests that such threats are all smoke-and-mirrors, attempts to
scare Iran into accepting whatever demands US-NATO and Israel want.

Surely, the Gulf State monarchs especially are aware enough to realize
that, even if Iran is planning to develop a nuclear weapon (for which
no evidence whatsoever exists), a nuclear-armed Iran would be far less
of a danger to them than a bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which
would positively guarantee their demise. Even Israel, which is only
1100 kilometers away from Iran, and also experiences regular severe
sand and dust storms, would likely suffer dire consequences as a
result of the radiation fallout from such an attack.

Has such absolute insanity infected the minds of the Western powers to such a degree that they actually would attack Iran, and in so doing
destroy the entire Gulf State region, further irradiate the entire planet and themselves, and quite possibly set off World War III? Or is it all just smoke-and-mirrors, scare tactics and rhetoric, and saner minds will in fact prevail?

Let us all hope and pray for the latter.http://www.globalresearch.ca/good-bye-dubai-bombing-irans-nuclear-facilities-would-leave-the-entire-gulf-states-region-virtually-uninhabitable/5334737

Another reason for TEPCO's shares jumping 18% in the morning session at Tokyo Stock Exchange is this:

TEPCO may get to release groundwater into the ocean soon.

From Jiji Tsushin (5/14/2013):

茂木敏充経済産業相は１４日の閣議後記者会見で、東京電力による福島第１原発の地下水放出が地元の懸念から先送りになったことについて、「関係者の了解を得ることが前提であり、国としても説明を尽くしていきたい」と述べた。地下水の放出については、汚染水抑制の観点から「極めて重要だ」と指摘した。

Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Toshimitsu Motegi commented in the press conference after the cabinet meeting on May 14 on the release of groundwater from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant [to the ocean] which has been postponed because of the concern from the locals, and said, "Obtaining the approval from those involved would be the prerequisite, and the national government will do its best to explain [to the locals]." As to the release of groundwater, he said "it is extremely important" from the standpoint of reducing the amount of contaminated water.

Why is Motegi saying this? Because that's what the Fukushima fishermen have said they need the government's assurance that the water is safe.

In other words, they will agree to the scheme as long as the national government tells them it is safe.

Trust in the government continues to run supreme in Fukushima after two years of pathetic performance by both the national government and the prefectural government when it comes to dealing with the accident and resultant contamination.

Also from Jiji Tsushin, from yesterday (5/13/2013):

福島県漁業協同組合連合会（県漁連）は１３日、同県いわき市で県漁協組合長会議を開き、東京電力が福島第１原発の汚染水増加対策として敷地内で地下水をくみ上げ、海に放出する計画について協議した。地下水は原子炉建屋で放射性物質に汚染される前の水で、東電は理解を求めたが結論は出ず、６月以降に改めて協議することになった。

The Federations of Fishery Cooperatives in Fukushima Prefecture held a meeting of the cooperatives presidents in Iwaki City in Fukushima on May 13 to discuss TEPCO's plan to draw groundwater in the plant compound and release it into the ocean as part of countermeasures against the increase of contaminated water at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. The groundwater is the water before it enters the reactor buildings and gets contaminated with radioactive materials. TEPCO asked for understanding, but no agreement was reached. They will meet again in June.

　県漁連の野崎哲会長は終了後、記者団に「地下水と汚染水を混同している漁業者もいる」と述べ、さらなる説明を東電に求めた。また、国に対して「（国が）了承したということを明確にしてもらわないといけない」と語った。

Tetsu Nozaki, president of the Federations of Fishery Cooperatives in Fukushima Prefecture, said to the press after the meeting, "There are fishermen who are confusing the groundwater with the contaminated water", and asked for further explanation from TEPCO. He also said, "We need to know clearly that (the national government) has approved [the plan]."

　会議には県内の漁協幹部のほか、水産庁や県の担当者が出席。東電の新妻常正常務が改めて計画を説明した。東電は安全性に問題はないとしているが、漁業者から風評被害を懸念する声が上がっている。

The meeting was attended by the senior members of the Fishery Cooperatives in Fukushima and the officials from the Fisheries Agency and Fukushima prefectural government. TEPCO's executive director Tsunemasa Niizuma explained the plan. There is no problem with safety, according to TEPCO, but fishermen are worried about damages from baseless rumors.

There you go. For the mayor of Iwaki City, his out is that he objects to the release of groundwater "at this point" (see my previous post on the topic). For the Fukushima fishermen, as long as the national government vouches for the safety of the water released, they will be OK with the plan. Just blame the fickle and ignorant consumers, as they've been doing for the past two years.

TEPCO seems to be trying to keep the water level in the reactor building basements at about O.P. (Onahama Peil) +3000 (or three meters above the standard sea level used for the plant), so that it is groundwater that's flowing into the basement instead of highly contaminated water flowing out of the basement.

Judging by the high, and increasing bioconcentration of radioactive materials in the fish inside the plant harbor, contaminated water from somewhere may be already leaking into the ocean anyway. That news died quickly.

Now with this cleaner water dump, TEPCO may be able to hasten the dilution of radioactive materials in the harbor.

In the context, "adult entertainment" is "sex for a price".

Boy-wonder, who was selected as one of the "Young Global Leaders" at Davos World Economic Forum, a confab of the rich and the powerful in the world, was visiting Okinawa.

Commander of the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Colonel James Flynn, froze, according to Sankei Shinbun article.

Sankei Shinbun (5/13/2013; part):

「もっと風俗活用を」と橋下氏　凍り付く沖縄の米軍司令官

"Use more adult entertainment establishments", says Hashimoto, Okinawa Commander froze

日本維新の会共同代表の橋下徹大阪市長は１３日夕、米軍普天間飛行場（沖縄県宜野湾市）を視察し同飛行場の司令官と面会した際に「もっと日本の風俗業を活用してほしい」と促していたことを明らかにした。「風俗業を活用してもらわないと、海兵隊の猛者の性的なエネルギーをコントロールできない」と伝えたというが、司令官は「米軍では禁止されている」などと取り合わなかったという。

Toru Hashimoto, mayor of Osaka City and co-president of Japan Restoration Party disclosed on May 13 evening that when he visited the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (Ginowan City, Okinawa) and met with the commander, he urged "more use of Japanese adult entertainment" by the US military. According to Hashimoto, he told the commander, "Unless you make good use of the adult entertainment industry, you can't control sexual energy of tough Marines." The commander ignored his suggestion, saying "it is prohibited in the US military".

　橋下氏は今月１日、同飛行場を視察。その際、司令官に「合法的に性的なエネルギーを解消できる場所が日本にはある」と述べた上で、海兵隊員に風俗業者を活用させるよう求めたという。橋下氏によると、司令官は凍り付いたような表情をみせ、「米軍では禁止の通達を出している。これ以上、この話はやめよう」と打ち切った。

Mr. Hashimoto visited the Futenma Air Station on May 1. On that occasion, he told the commander of the Station that "there are places in Japan that [the Marines] can legally release their sexual energy", and urged that the commander order the Marines to make use of adult entertainment establishments. According to Mr. Hashimoto, the commander froze, and cut off the talk by saying "The US military bans the use [of such establishments]. Let's not talk about this any more."

Boy-wonder's comment is no surprise, as he's been saying "comfort women" are absolutely necessary.

It is absolutely no surprise for the country of Japan either. After all, the country readied what was to become "Recreation and Amusement Association" in three days after the Emperor declared the end of World War II on August 15, 1945 - almost the very first thing that the defeated government did. Heroic girls and women to serve as "breakwater", and preserve the virginity of the rest of Japanese girls and women.

What a country.

Residents will be able to repair tsunami damage in the town of Futaba after the Japanese government decided to prepare for the removal of parts of the town from the Fukushima evacuation zone.

On 4/26/2013, Fukushima Diary reported “Tepco is about to discharge pumped ground water to sea, “They won’t remove 21,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium” [URL]”

According to Tepco, they are ready to discharge pumped ground water to the sea.

Currently 400 tones of ground water flows to the plant everyday. To control this water, Tepco made 12 wells to pump up the water before flowing to the plant.

Tepco is now ready to discharge the water pumped from 4 of 12 wells. They state they only need the “approvals” of the stakeholders.

The water is not purified before discharge. They only analyze the nuclides.

On 5/13/2013, Fukushima Prefectual Federation of Fishries Co-operative Associations decided not to approve the request of Tepco to discharge the ground water. The associations stated some of the members don’t distinguish ground water and contaminated retained water.

Tepco commented they will continue to convince the associations.

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The video of radiation measurement for “black substance” was uploaded on Youtube.

Black substance is the extremely radioactive material containing cyanobacteria.

Details and location data are not reported, but Fukushima Diary posts this as a reference for the potential research in future.

The radiation level decreased to be 120,000 CPM with one sheet of paper. It became 100,000 CPM with two sheets of paper.

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