東京五輪 森会長らが福島県知事と会談 野球・ソフトボールで via NHK Newsweb

Posted on 2016/11/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

組織委員会の理事会で野球・ソフトボールの一部の試合が福島県で行われることが承認されたあと、組織委員会の森会長と遠藤副会長は福島県の内堀知事と会談しました。

この中では、組織委員会側から、ＩＯＣ＝国際オリンピック委員会のバッハ会長が福島に思い入れがあり、復興に対する東京オリンピックの意義を真剣に考えているといった話が出されたほか、現在候補に挙がっている福島県内の３球場のうち、どこで開催をするべきか、１２月のＩＯＣ理事会までに決定することなどが確認されたということです。
会談のあと、遠藤副会長は「復興五輪というのは大きな課題の１つとして大臣時代にも取り組んできたが、引き続き知事としっかり連携をとりながら進めていきたい」と話していました。

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日本受注のベトナム原発計画白紙 via 共同通信/47 News

Posted on 2016/11/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

財政難理由、政権輸出戦略に打撃

【ハノイ共同】ベトナム政府が、日本などが受注を決めた中部ニントゥアン省の原発建設計画を白紙撤回する方針を決めたことが分かった。ベトナム国会は9日、政府が計画の中止を求める決議案を10日に提出すると明らかにした。

ベトナム共産党は厳しい財政状況を踏まえ、原発計画を見直すよう政府に指示していた。原発輸出を成長戦略の一つに位置づける安倍政権にとって大きな打撃となる。国会は決議案を22日に採決にかける方針で、政府案通りに可決される可能性が高い。

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US military’s ‘lost nuke’ may have finally been found after 66yrs via RT

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A Canadian diver may have just found a bomb lost by the US Air Force in 1950 on the ocean floor off the west coast of Canada.

Sean Smyrichinsky was diving for sea cucumbers near Haida Gwaii when he found a strange object on the seabed.

“I got a little far from my boat and I found something that I’d never ever seen before,” Smyrichinsky told CBC News. “It resembled a bagel cut in half, and then around the bagel these bowls [were] moulded into it.

“I came out from the dive and I came up and I started telling my crew, ‘My god, I found a UFO. I found the strangest thing I’d ever seen!’”

The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed the site does match the possible location of the ‘lost nuke’, which was onboard a US Airforce Bomber B-36 when it crashed during a secret training flight from Alaska to Texas.

When the massive aircraft’s engines failed, crew decided to jettison the bomb into water before setting the plane to autopilot and parachuting to safety, leaving the plane to crash into a remote location in the coastal mountains of British Columbia.

Five crew died in the incident and 12 others were rescued. Although the wreckage was found four years later, the dummy Mark IV bomb was never located.

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Kazakhstan’s leader calls for a nuclear-free world via NHK World

Posted on 2016/11/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called on countries to work together to ban nuclear weapons.

Nazarbayev made the comment in a speech to Japan’s Diet in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Referring to more than 450 nuclear tests held in his country by the former Soviet Union, he said Kazakhstan and Japan have experienced the massive power of weapons of mass destruction. He added that the tests damaged land and peoples’ health.

Nazarbayev said he will pray for the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when he visits Hiroshima on Wednesday.

He said he will call on the world from the city to abolish nuclear weapons. He added that he will urge countries not to make or allow the spread of such weapons, or to carry out nuclear tests.

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渡辺謙が「核兵器禁止条約」に反対した安倍政権を真っ向批判！「核を持つ国に追従するだけで意見は無いのか」via Litera

Posted on 2016/11/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

〈核の恐ろしさを体験したこの国はどこへ行こうとしているのか〉

こんな声をあげたのは世界的に活躍する俳優の渡辺謙だ。10月27日（現地時間）、国連総会第1委員会において「核兵器禁止条約」に向けた交渉を2017年にスタートさせる決議が賛成多数で採択された。しかし、この議決に対して米露英仏の核保有国などとともに反対したのが、被爆国である日本だった。

この日本の姿勢に対して、渡辺がツイッターに批判を投稿したのだ。その全文を掲載しよう。

〈核兵器禁止条約に日本が「反対」という信じられないニュースが流れました。いったいどうやってこの地球から無用な兵器を無くしていくつもりなのか？　核を持つ国に追従するだけで意見は無いのか。原爆だけでなく原発でも核の恐ろしさを体験したこの国はどこへ行こうとしているのか、何を発信したいのか〉

渡辺は国連議決の直後の10月28日にこれをアップしているが、その主張は至極まっとうなものだ。

岸田文雄外相は、反対理由として「核保有国と非核保有国の対立を一層助長する」などと述べているが、そんなものはゴマカシにすぎない。そもそも、日本はこれまでも表向きは「核廃絶」などと言いながら、実際にはまったく逆の行動をとり続けてきた。

たとえば今年5月の核軍縮の進展を目指す国連作業部会第2回会合でも、佐野利男軍縮大使は、安全保障上の問題で核が必要だとし、「核兵器を削減・廃絶するのはほとんど非現実的」と主張、条約の締結に対し反対した。

(略）

安倍首相は今年の広島・長崎の平和記念式典でオバマ訪問を「核兵器を使用した唯一の国の大統領が、被爆の実相に触れ、被爆者の方々の前で、核兵器のない世界を追求する、そして核を保有する国々に対して、その勇気を持とうと力強く呼びかけました」と自らの実績として大々的にアピールし、「世界の指導者や若者に被爆の悲惨な実態に触れてもらうことにより、『核兵器のない世界』に向け、努力を積み重ねてまいります」と宣言していた。それが裏では、この有様である。

しかし、それも当然だろう。安倍首相は官房副長官時代の2002年、早稲田大学で開かれた田原総一朗氏との学生向けシンポジウムで、「憲法上は原子爆弾だって問題ではないですからね、憲法上は。小型であればですね」と発言、また2006年にも「核兵器であっても、自衛のための必要最小限度にとどまれば、保有は必ずしも憲法の禁止するところではない」と答弁書に記すなど、その考えは“核の保有や核兵器の使用は認められるべき”というものなのだ。

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Women Of Fukushima Invite Modi: Come And See The Destruction, Don’t Buy Nukes From Japan! via Counter Currents

Posted on 2016/11/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Indian PM Narendra Modi will visit Japan from 10-12 November, 2016. Civil society organisations of Japan have launched this petition to oppose the India-Japan Nuclear Agreement which the two governments are supposed to finalise during this visit. More than 1900 people have signed it already.

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To the Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

We are women living in Fukushima prefecture, where a massive accident unparalleled in history occurred on March 11, 2011, at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

As a result of this accident our lives changed dramatically. Among us, there are those who lost their homes, those who lost their jobs, those who lost their hometowns and friends, those who lost their future, those who lost their joy in life, and those who lost their very lives. All of this was taken by the nuclear accident.

[…]

Mr. Modi, for the Indian people and the future of India, please do not sign the India-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. We beseech you to make a wise judgment.

Fukushima Women Against Nukes

Fukushima Women Against Nukes is a network of women that started in September 2012, using various direct actions such as sit-ins, demonstrations as well as petitioning TEPCO and others to demand justice for everything that the Fukushima Daiichi disaster has taken away from them. They are also strongly opposed to restarting any of Japan’s nuclear reactors and are working for a nuclear free world (website: http://onna100nin.seesaa.net)

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America’s Nuclear-Waste Plan Is a Giant Mess via The Atlantic

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An explosion caused by cat litter at a storage site was just the beginning.

The fateful explosion that shut down America’s only permanent nuclear-waste storage site happened on Valentine’s Day 2014. The facility, called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant or WIPP, is a series of salt caverns 2,000 feet below the New Mexican desert. Radioactive waste from U.S.’s nuclear weapons comes to WIPP, drum by drum, to be entombed underground.

One such drum ruptured on that February evening. Radioactive material spewed through the caverns, some of it leaking aboveground as well. The original cause turned out to be downright comical: Contractors packing the drum at Los Alamos National Laboratory used the wrong type of cat litter—wheat-based rather than clay—to soak up the liquid radioactive waste, which then reacted with other chemicals inside the drum to explode. Yes, cat litter.

WIPP has been closed for cleanup since the accident, and it’s since blown past one deadline to reopen. The Department of Energy, which operates the plant, is now working to ready WIPP by December 2016.

[…]

So instead, high-level radioactive waste sat at the old factories where it was produced during the Cold War—especially at Hanford in Washington and Savannah River in South Carolina. Those tanks and storage facilities were never designed to hold high-level waste for so long. The sites suffered from leaks and environmental contamination. And the cleanup efforts at Hanford and Savannah River are dogged by their own delays and cost overruns. (The report was not kidding around when it called criticized the DOE for a “history of exceeding its cost and schedule estimates.”) Since a repository at Yucca Mountain doesn’t exist, there is sometimes talk of sending this high-level waste to WIPP, which was designed to only handle low-level waste.

[…]

This aboveground storage plan is just the latest in the push-and-pull between a national agency and the local community. Whatever one’s personal opinion of nuclear weapons, Americans have all benefited from living in a country whose military might is backed by those weapons. But the costs of producing them has fallen disproportionately on specific locations—at Hanford and Savannah River and now at the sites where the waste is stored. The waste has to be go somewhere, but where?  And who will want it if the government can’t promise to get it right?

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鳥取地震で再注目…「福島原発直下に活断層」驚愕レポートがあった！via Asagei+

Posted on 2016/11/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

今年4月の熊本地震に続いて、10月21日に鳥取でも最大震度6弱の大きな被害に見舞われた日本列島。今回の地震がさらなる地震を誘発するのではないか‥‥そんな不安と観測が浮上する中、さらなる衝撃証言をキャッチした。

原発直下に活断層──。原発施設周辺の断層の再調査の結果、東京電力福島第一・第二原発の周辺には、活断層の疑いのある断層が計5つあることが、これまで明らかになっている。ところが、これまで報じられていないが、日本最大の公的研究機関、産業技術総合研究所活断層研究グループが1960年代後半、国に提出したレポートには「直下に活断層あり」と明記されていたのだ。しかも「3.11」の事故直前、直下の活断層を震源とする地震が発生。原子炉崩壊はこれが原因だと主張する研究者も現れたのである。

「直下型地震はもちろん、気象庁の地震計に記録されている。私がそれを知ったのは、東日本巨大地震発生直後でした。地震学者なら地震波を解析して気づいている人もいると思いますが、気象庁はそれを意図的に隠しているのかもしれない」

こう語るのは、さる国立大学で長年、地震を研究してきた科学者である。

「福島原発の直下地震は、巨大地震と同時刻に発生しました。巨大地震に誘発された、あるいは太平洋プレートのプレッシャーで活断層が動いたとも考えられる。地震による津波で福島第一原発の原子炉は崩壊したと言われていますが、私は直下地震のパワーで壊れ、原子炉の炉心が溶融してしまったと見ています」

この科学者は東日本大震災後、産業技術総合研究所のレポートを読み返し、原発直下に活断層が存在することを確認。巨大地震と同時に直下地震が発生したことを確信したという。

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福島第一原発にもこれと同じことが言えるのではないか。原子炉崩壊は巨大地震による津波で説明がつくため、解析する必要もなかった。いや、活断層がありながらその報告を無視して原発を造ったなどということは、外部に漏れてはいけないことなのだ。

福島第一原発事故発生時、1号機内部にいた元作業員の木下聡氏はマスコミのインタビューに答え、次のように証言している。

「あの日は午後から、1号機で定期検査のための足場を組む作業をしていた。1階には私と同僚の2人。4階に元請けと協力会社の4、5人がいた。最初の揺れはそれほどでもなかった。だが、2回目はすごかった。床にはいつくばった。配管は昔のアンカーボルトを使っているから、揺すられると隙間ができる。あぁ危ないと思ったら案の定、無数の配管やケーブルのトレーが天井からバサバサ落ちてきた。4階にいた人たちは『水が大量にゴーと襲ってきた』と言っていた。それが使用済み燃料プールからなのか、非常用復水器が壊れたからなのか、その時はわからなかった」

木下氏は、先の科学者の主張にも同調している。

「東電は『全電源喪失と地震の揺れは無関係』と言っているが、そんなのありえない。謙虚に検証する姿勢がないと、安全神話が崩壊する」

木下氏も、2度目の揺れはすごかったと証言した。原発事故は、産総研のレポートを無視した結果、不幸な偶然が重なり合って起きた空前の大惨事だったのだ。

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Ram Gopal Varma’s Nuclear Is A Whopping 340 Crores Project via Koimoi

Posted on 2016/11/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, who is busy shooting Amitabh Bachchan starrer Sarkar 3, on Monday announced he is making an international project titled Nuclear on a budget of Rs 340 crore.

[…]

He shared a poster with the tweet, which reads: “An atomic bomb smuggled into Mumbai; Demand for evacuation of Kashmir; Pakistan denies involvement and America steps in; America convinces India and Pakistan to forge forces; At stake are millions of life and the beginning of World War III.”

In another post, he revealed that the film will be shot across the US, China, Russia, Yemen and India. And yet another poster shows people running helter skelter with a cloud of smoke emanating from a bomb blast.

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Japan’s government should stay out of U.S. sailors’ lawsuit against Tepco via The Japan Times

Posted on 2016/11/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Dear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,

Let me first acknowledge that after four long years of silence, the Japanese government has finally taken a position regarding the lawsuit filed against Tokyo Electric Power Co. in the U.S. by more than 450 American sailors, marines and civilians who were on board the USS Reagan and accompanying military ships off the coast of Tohoku after 3/11.

These young people experienced serious health problems resulting from, they allege, radiation exposure while participating in Operation Tomodachi, the U.S. military’s humanitarian rescue mission launched in response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, and subsequent multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.

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The Japanese government submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 3. An amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief is one presented by a party not directly involved in the suit in the hope of influencing the outcome. The brief contains two points:

1. “The Government of Japan has developed a comprehensive system to ensure compensation for victims of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.”

2. “Damage claims brought in tribunals outside of Japan threaten the continuing viability of the compensation system established by the Government of Japan.”

Examining the first point, if the Japanese government truly had “a comprehensive system to ensure compensation for victims,” there would be no need for the U.S. service members’ lawsuit. Yet, as you know, the Japanese government and its subsidiaries have, to date, not paid a single yen to any non-Tepco-related victim of radiation exposure from Fukushima No. 1. This includes, as of March this year, a total of 173 children from the prefecture who underwent surgery after being diagnosed with suspected thyroid cancer, 131 of whom were confirmed to have had cancer.

[…]

Let us further suppose that an American court were to award $3 million per person as compensation for the deaths, currently standing at seven, of the military personnel who were irradiated. By contrast, the Japanese government continues to deny compensation, for radiation-induced illnesses let alone deaths, to its own citizens. This would surely impact the “viability” (not to mention reputation) of the Japanese government in its ongoing denial of radiation-related injuries to non-Tepco employees.

[…]

Fortunately, thanks to the support of thousands of ordinary Japanese, he has already raised $700,000 toward his $1 million goal. With tears in his eyes, Koizumi explained that he could not ignore the suffering of hundreds of formerly healthy young Americans who willingly put themselves at risk in order to render aid to the Japanese people.

Prime Minister Abe, I call on you to end the Japanese government’s unconditional legal support of Tepco. Further, if the Japanese government has a conscience, please immediately provide medical aid and compensation to the hundreds of American victims of Operation Tomodachi.

BRIAN VICTORIA

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