Fukui Gov Issei Nishikawa will soon give his consent for the restart of two nuclear reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co’s Takahama plant

         

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Fukui governor to give consent for nuclear plant restart

National Dec. 21, 2015 – 07:00AM JST ( 7 )

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Fukui Gov Issei Nishikawa will soon give his consent for the restart of two nuclear reactors in the prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast, sources close to the matter said Sunday, as the central government seeks to bring more reactors back online after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

The governor will visit the site of the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co’s Takahama plant on Monday to check safety measures before expressing his consent, they said. The governor’s consent is necessary to restart the reactors.

Earlier in the day, industry minister Motoo Hayashi, in charge of the country’s energy policy, met with Nishikawa at the Fukui prefectural office and sought the Fukui governor’s consent for the restart of the two nuclear reactors.

 

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THOUSANDS of adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine are being recorded by health chiefs every year,. The FDA oblivious as it continues to expabd Gardasil use.

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The Independent: Another 18 girls claim adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine

December 13, 2015 by Erin Elizabeth

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Eighteen Irish teenage girls have recently come forward claiming to be suffering acute physical side-effects from the controversial HPV anti-cervical cancer vaccine administered in their schools. Parents came forward after the Sunday Independent revealed similar claims of suffering from 131 young women a weekend ago.

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 These new allegations have surfaced since a doctor in Denmark (where Gardasil is no longer used) linked some chronic symptoms to the vaccination. In Denmark, one in 500 girls display a range of side-effects, there are 143 Irish teenagers are now suffering debilitating health issues, and we know girls in the US are suffering as well. Because of this, expert petitions are underway in France and Spain to ban its use, and Japan has stopped recommending the vaccine all together.

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How safe is the HPV vaccine? Thousands of adverse reactions to cervical cancer jab recorded annually

By Andrew Picken, 4 December 2015 4.51pm.

THOUSANDS of adverse reactions to the lifesaving cervical cancer jab are being recorded by health chiefs every year, The Sunday Post can reveal.

Campaigners last night said the vaccine should no longer be given to schoolgirls until more is found out about the side-effects of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine.

The Post’s figures show more than 6,000 suspected adverse reactions to the jab have been recorded across the UK since 2012, including 340 in Scotland.

However, campaigners claim this is just the tip of the iceberg as health chiefs estimate they only receive reports about 10% of all suspected adverse reactions, suggesting tens of thousands could have suffered similarly.

More than eight million HPV jabs have been given to girls aged 12 and 13 in the UK since 2008 and the vaccination programme is credited with saving 400 lives every year.

But pressure is growing for the authorities to get a better understanding of the side-effects as the figures obtained by The Post show one person south of the Border died this year as a result of a suspected adverse reaction to the HPV jab.

MSPs on Holyrood’s petitions committee agreed to ask SNP ministers for their view on campaigners’ calls to hold a roundtable discussion on the safety of the vaccine, involving medical and scientific experts from both sides of the debate.

 

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December 13, 2015

Controversial HPV Vaccine Gardasil: Allegations That 18 Teenage Girls Suffer Acute Side Effects Surface, International Concern Is Growing

Essel Pratt

Gardasil, a vaccine for the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), has been labeled as a controversial since it has been made available. Although beneficial in preventing cancer within the girls that receive the vaccine, the side effects that some are experiencing can be debilitating for many girls. Those side effects have many wondering if the drug is safe enough for human use.

Common side effects of being vaccinated with Gardasil include nausea, headaches, and even fainting at the time of the vaccination, or shortly after, according to the Independent. However, more extreme side effects are more serious and longer lasting, often times permanent. They include chronic fatigue, chronic regional pain syndrome, postural tachycardia syndrome, and fibromyalgia, according to Jesper Mehlsen of the Frederiksberg Hospital in Denmark.

Mehlsen was quick to point out that the conditions have not been proven to be caused by Gardasil, but there is a growing trend among girls that have received the vaccine and are experiencing the exact same conditions over time.

“We have noted a pattern of symptoms in a relatively large group of patients and that these symptoms seem to have a temporal association to the vaccination.”

[Photo by Russell Kirk/Merck & Co. via Getty Images]

Recently, 18 teenage girls came forward to report debilitating side effects after taking Gardasil, joining the growing number of teens across the world that have experienced harmful side effects after taking Gardasil. In Ireland, about 131 girls have been identified, and in Denmark, over 1,100 hundred girls suffer from Gardasil side effects, according to the Independent. The number of reported drastic side effects in America vary depending on the study that is read. However, reports of negative and debilitating side effects from around the world have led nearly 40 percent of American parents to not vaccinate their children from HPV.

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Merck’s 9-valent HPV vaccine wins expanded FDA approval

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Sanofi Pasteur MSD received authorization from the European Commission to market its nine-valent human …

FDA expands Gardasil 9 HPV vaccine approval to boys, young men

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The FDA expanded the age indication for Gardasil 9 HPVvaccine to include boys and men aged 16 to 26 years, according to a press release …

 

Volcano Eruption : Japan, [Mt Aso volcano] Prefecture of Kumamoto

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Volcano Eruption in Japan on December 07 2015 08:00 AM (UTC).

Mount Aso in southwestern Japan’s Kumamoto prefecture had a small-scale eruption Monday morning, its first since Oct 23, the weather agency said. The eruption spewed smoke about 700 metres above the No. 1 crater of Mt Nakadake, one of the five peaks that constitute Mt Aso, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. There have been no reports of people injured so far. The agency maintained its volcanic alert level at 2 on the scale of 5, warning people not to approach the crater. Rocks could fall within one kilometre of the crater, it said. “An eruption of this level can happen at any time,” an official of the agency’s Fukuoka Regional Headquarters said. The alert level for Mt Aso was raised to 3 following its eruption on Sept 14, which warned against approaching the mountain, but it was lowered by one notch on Nov 24 amid diminished volcanic activity.

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Japan’s volcanic Nishinoshima Island, has grown Twelve Times Bigger Since it’s second peak Popped Up Two Years Ago

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New Island Grows Twelve Times Bigger Since Popping Up Two Years Ago

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A NASA image from 2014

It’s not exactly a Pacific beach resort just yet, but the Japanese Coast Guard reports that a volcanic island that first popped up in the middle of the ocean two years ago has already grown to twelve times its initial size.

Molten rock cooled by the ocean first poked out of the water in November, 2013, when it was initially spotted next to island Nishinoshima, which it eventually grew to engulf.

 

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The eruption of Nishinoshima with the new island joining with the original Nishinoshima island, seen on December 26, 2013. Image: Japan Coast Guard

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April 6 2014 7:45 AM

A New Volcanic Island Swallows Its Older Sister

 

By Phil Plait

Tens of thousands of years ago, an undersea volcano a thousand kilometers south of Tokyo reached a milestone: Its peak reached the surface of the Pacific Ocean. It became an actual island. For millennia it slept, but in the 1970s a series of eruptions grew the island, which was named Nishinoshima. It was tiny, just a couple of hundred meters across.

But then there were a series of eruptions just south of the island in November 2013, in a still-submerged part of the volcano. This created a second peak, which poked through the water’s surface to become a new island just a few hundred meters from Nishinoshima.

That wouldn’t last: The new island grew as the volcano continued to erupt, and just before New Year’s Day 2014, the new island grew so big it actually connected to the old island. Now there is just one … and it’s still erupting, as you can see in this lovely image taken by the Landsat 8 satellite on March 20, 2014:

The new volcanic Nishinoshima Island, seen FROM SPAAAAACE. Click to hephaestenate.

Photo by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, usingLandsatdata from the USGSEarth Explorer.

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A new report from Fairewinds Energy Education (FEE), reveals that the incident in Fukushima could result in as many as one million more cancers in Japan’s future

 

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‘Million Cancer Deaths From Fukushima Expected in Japan,’ New Report Reveals

 

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A shocking new report defies the chronically underestimated impacts of the Fukushima’s triple meltdown on the risk of cancer in exposed populations, which does not just include Japan, but arguably the entire world. 

A new report from Fairewinds Energy Education (FEE), “Cancer on the Rise in Post-Fukushima Japan,” reveals that the ongoing multi-core nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant that started in March 2011 has produced approximately 230 times higher than normal thyroid cancers in Fukushima Prefecture, and could result in as many as one million more cancers in Japan’s future as a result of the meltdown.

According to the new report, data provided by a group of esteemed Japanese medical professionals and TEPCO, confirm a direct link of numerous cancers in Japan to the triple meltdown. As transcribed by Enenews.com, Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer at Fairewinds stated, Nov. 4, 2015:

“It’s been almost 5 years from the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns, and the news from Japan is still not good. Two reports recently released in Japan, one by Japanese medical professionals and the second from Tokyo Power Corporation – TEPCO – acknowledged that there will be numerous cancers in Japan, much greater than normal, due to the radioactive discharges from the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi… I believe, as do many of my colleagues, that there will be at least 100,000 and as many as one million more cancers in Japan’s future as a result of this meltdown… [T]he second report received from Japan proves that the incidence of thyroid cancer is approximately 230 times higher than normal in Fukushima Prefecture… So what’s the bottom line? The cancers already occurring in Japan are just the tip of the iceberg. I’m sorry to say that the worst is yet to come.”

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Amid Protests, Sendai Nuclear Power Plant Reactor No. 2 Comes on Line

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Will the ‘stricter regulations’ serve as protection?

Just days after 1,800 people from around Kyushu gathered to protest the planned restart of another reactor at the Sendai nuclear plant, the second reactor has been brought online. The Sendai Nuclear Power Plant is the only one working in Japan since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. [1]

There are currently 20 reactors at 13 Japanese nuclear power plants undergoing audits to confirm that their safety standards are in compliance with new regulations adopted since the Fukushima meltdown. The new regulations are significantly stricter than those that existed prior to the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that crashed into Fukushima and make provisions for the highest level of earthquake and tsunami risk. Nuclear power plants in Japan must now have several backup power sources available, as well as other comprehensive emergency measures. [2]

Opinion polls have consistently shown that residents were against bringing the second Sendai reactor online. On October 12, nearly 2,000 people protested the restart, waving placards reading “Nuclear plant, no more” and shouting slogans. The plant’s No. 1 reactor was brought back on line in August. [3]

Protesters called the decision to bring No. 2 online a “suicidal” decision, as a steam generator in the reactor building has not been replaced with a more durable one. Kyushu Electric Power Co. had said it would replace the generator in 2009.

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Fukushima radiation has been linked to a surge in thyroid cancer among children near the disaster area

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Child cancers up fiftyfold after Fukushima disaster

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Cases of thyroid cancer among children living close to the Fukushima nuclear power plant have increased fiftyfold since the meltdown in 2011, according to Japanese scientists.

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Study shows alarming thyroid cancer rates in children living near Fukushima

Thu, Oct 8

Associated PressSource:

Children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere.

A young evacuee is screened at a shelter for leaked radiation from the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima,

Source: Associated Press

Most of the 370,000 children in Fukushima prefecture (state) have been given ultrasound checkups since the March 2011 meltdowns at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. The most recent statistics, released in August, show that thyroid cancer is suspected or confirmed in 137 of those children, a number that rose by 25 from a year earlier. Elsewhere, the disease occurs in only about one or two of every million children per year.

“This is more than expected and emerging faster than expected,” lead author Toshihide Tsuda said.

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Fukushima radiation hits home as thyroid cancer rises among children

Thyroid cancer rates were about 20 to 50 times the national average, according to the analysis.

By Elizabeth Shim   |   Oct. 8, 2015 at 2:19 PM

TOKYO, Oct. 8 (UPI) — Fukushima radiation has been linked to a surge in thyroid cancer among children near the disaster area, and radiation woes have reach South Korea, where findings revealed imported tobacco from Japan contained higher than normal levels of radioactive cesium.

A team of Japanese researchers led by Toshihide Tsuda, a professor of environmental epidemiology at Okayama University, said cases of thyroid cancer in Fukushima Prefecture have skyrocketed since March 2011, Kyodo News reported.

The rates were about 20 to 50 times the national average, according to the analysis. The findings were based on screenings of 370,000 Fukushima residents age 18 or younger, and the culprit was increased radiation exposure since the Fukushima nuclear disaster hit the area in March 2011. In late August, the prefecture had identified 104 cases of thyroid cancer.

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Powerful Storm Slams in to Hokkaido, Typhoon Strength Winds

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Tropical Storm in Japan on Thursday, 08 October, 2015 at 04:58 (04:58 AM) UTC.

Description A powerful typhoon bearing down on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido has forced authorities to order the evacuation of thousands of residents. Thousands of residents in northern Japan have been ordered to evacuate as a powerful typhoon bears down on the island of Hokkaido. Local authorities issued evacuation orders for Nemuro city on the coast and neighbouring areas, as Typhoon Choi-Wan approached from the east, the Hokkaido daily reports. About 170 flights have been cancelled and scores of train services suspended, the paper says. The season’s 23rd typhoon, still several hundred kilometres east of Japan, had maximum sustained winds of 108kph and gusts of 162kph, the Japan Meteorological Agency says.

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Tropical Storm in Japan on Thursday, 08 October, 2015 at 04:58 (04:58 AM) UTC.

Base data EDIS Number: TC-20151008-50411-JPN Event type: Tropical Storm Date/Time: Thursday, 08 October, 2015 at 04:58 (04:58 AM) UTC Last update: — Cause of event: Damage level: Unknown Geographic information Continent: Asia Country: Japan County / State: Prefecture of Hokkaido Area: Prefecture-wide City: Coordinate: N 43° 16.857, E 142° 43.865 Number of affected people / Humanities loss Foreign people: Affected is unknown.

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Powerful Storm in N Japan, Funnel Cloud, Snow and Tropics

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If you are located anywhere in central or northern Japan I am sure you have at least noticed its it’s a little (or a lot) windy outside today.  Choi-wan a large extra-tropical low and once typhoon east of

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Japan has grew in size in to Thursday morning covering a vast area of the North West Pacific with gale force winds.

 

 

Winds up to typhoon strength have already been reported in parts of Hokkaido from this storm. Click here for latest reports. The worst of it will be in the North East Area of the island where the low expected to pass Thursday evening with a pressure below 950hpa and winds up to 162kph.

Prepare to be educated… The Jet Stream is indicated by the arrows but even without it the best satellite to use to spot it is the Water Vapor Imagery, you can see it in the areas of drier air in the upper levels. The Jet is ripping Choi-wan apart today from a tropical to a massive extra-tropical system. Winds already reported up to Typhoon Strength in parts of Hokkaido.

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Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership completed: Corporatocracy wins as US Citizens are sold out yet again. It is up to Congress now.

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End Of The American Dream

The American Dream Is Becoming A Nightmare And Life As We Know It Is About To Change

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Permanently Locking In The Obama Agenda For 40 Percent Of The Global Economy

By Michael Snyder, on October 5th, 2015

 

We have just witnessed one of the most significant steps toward a one world economic system that we have ever seen.  Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been completed, and if approved it will create the largest trading bloc on the planet.  But this is not just a trade agreement.  In this treaty, Barack Obama has thrown in all sorts of things that he never would have been able to get through Congress otherwise.  And once this treaty is approved, it will be exceedingly difficult to ever make changes to it.  So essentially what is happening is that the Obama agenda is being permanently locked in for 40 percent of the global economy.

The United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam all intend to sign on to this insidious plan.  Collectively, these nations have a total population of about 800 million people and a combined GDP of approximately 28 trillion dollars.

Of course Barack Obama is assuring all of us that this treaty is going to be wonderful for everyone…

In hailing the agreement, Obama said, “Congress and the American people will have months to read every word” before he signs the deal that he described as a win for all sides.

“If we can get this agreement to my desk, then we can help our businesses sell more Made in America goods and services around the world, and we can help more American workers compete and win,” Obama said.

Sadly, just like with every other “free trade” agreement that the U.S. has entered into since World War II, the exact opposite is what will actually happen.  Our trade deficit will get even larger, and we will see even more jobs and even more businesses go overseas.

 

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Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal Struck As “Corporate Secrecy” Wins Again

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/05/2015 17:46 -0400

Once again the corporatocracy wins as the so-called “Trojan horse” Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been finalized. As WSJ reports, the U.S., Japan and 10 countries around the Pacific reached a historic accord Monday to lower trade barriers to goods and services and set commercial rules of the road for two-fifths of the global economy, officials said.

For the U.S., the TPP (reportedly) opens agricultural markets in Japan and Canada, tightens intellectual property rules to benefit drug and technology companies, and establishes a tightknit economic bloc to challenge China’s influence in the region (likely forcing their hand into separate trade agreements).

However, Obama is likely to face a tough fight to get the deal through Congress(especially in light of presidential candidates’ opposition).

The US, Japan and 10 other Pacific Rim economies have reached agreement to strike the largest trade pact seen anywhere in two decades, in what is a huge strategic and political win for US President Barack Obama and Japan’s Shinzo Abe.

 

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‘Massive’ Media Hype for TPP

By Dean Baker

It is amazing how the elite media can be dragged along by their noses into accepting that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) can have a big impact on trade and growth. If I had a dollar for every time the deal was described as “massive,” or that we were told what share of world trade will be covered by the TPP, I would be richer than Bill Gates. The reality is that the vast majority of the trade between the countries in the TPP is already covered by trade agreements, as can be seen:

We continue to hear superlatives even as the evidence suggests the trade impact will be trivial. For example, the New York Times reported that US tariffs on Japanese cars will be phased out over 30 years. Wow! The most optimistic growth estimates show a cumulative gain by 2027 of less than 0.4 percent, roughly two months of normal GDP growth.

This doesn’t mean that the TPP can’t have an impact. It will lock in a regulatory structure, the exact parameters of which are yet to be seen. We do know that the folks at the table came from places like General Electric and Monsanto, not the AFL-CIO and the Sierra Club. We also know that it will mean paying more for drugs and other patent and copyright-protected material (forms of protection, whose negative impact is never included in growth projections), but we don’t yet know how much.

We also know that the Obama administration gave up an opportunity to include currency rules. This means that trade deficit is likely to persist long into the future. This deficit has been a persistent source of gap in demand, leading to millions of lost jobs. We filled this demand in the 1990s with the stock bubble and in the last decade in the housing bubble. It seems the latest plan from the Fed is that we simply won’t fill the gap in this decade.

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Economist Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. A version of this post originally appeared on CEPR’s blog Beat the Press (10/6/15).

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Fukushima The Gift That Keeps on Giving : Floods across eastern Japan have swept more than 700 bags containing Fukushima-contaminated soil and grass into Japan’s rivers

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Over 700 Fukushima waste bags swept away by torrential floods

Published time: 19 Sep, 2015 04:26

 

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Extensive and destructive floods across eastern Japan have swept more than 700 bags containing Fukushima-contaminated soil and grass into Japan’s rivers, with many still unaccounted for and some spilling their radioactive content into the water system.

Authorities in the small city of Nikko in Japan’s Tochigi Prefecture, some 175 km away from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, have said that at least 334 bags containing radioactive soil have been swept into a tributary of the Kinugawa river, The Asahi Shimbun reports.

According to the city’s authorities, the washed-away waste was only part of hundreds of bags being stored at the Kobyakugawa Sakura Koen park alongside the river. Another 132 bags of waste reportedly rolled down the slopes.

 

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The incident happened after Tropical Storm Etau caused vast flooding across Japan forcing the Kinugawa River to burst its banks on September 10. Twenty bags were found empty downstream on Thursday. Three hundred and fourteen bags, each with a capacity of one cubic meter, remain unaccounted for.

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