ENENEWS Update 01-10-14

[DeSwiss]

Japan (Fukushima)


05:09 PM EST on January 10th, 2014
Radiation jumps around Fukushima plant — Now ~1,000% previous levels — Tepco kept strontium-90 data secret for months — Officials knew of increase but ‘too busy’ to do anything — Gov’t holds Friday meeting about what can be done

02:29 PM EST on January 10th, 2014
Host: Fukushima may be one of biggest events to ever affect us in modern times — Gundersen: It should be ‘Level 8 on INES scale (AUDIO)

08:45 AM EST on January 10th, 2014
NRC comments on steam at Fukushima Unit 3 — Gundersen: Plutonium could be causing fissions, heating up melted fuel (AUDIO)

05:59 PM EST on January 9th, 2014
‘Pacific Wasteland’? Japan Gov’t Scientist: ‘Big problem’ for whole ocean if Fukushima’s water released with strontium-90 — TV: It may not get filtered out; “All bets are off” without way to plug plant leaks — NHK: All decontamination systems stop working, may not restart for “long time” (VIDEO)

04:30 PM EST on January 9th, 2014
TV: Fukushima plant “an undefused bomb for decades to come” — Japan Journalist: They only have the vaguest idea of what happened to 100s of tons of molten fuel — An ongoing crisis on edge of disaster



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US/Canada


12:16 PM EST on January 10th, 2014
Professor’s Diary: Fukushima radioactive material “has reached the west coast as of June 2013 by ocean transport” — Health risks to be determined by ongoing monitoring

12:12 AM EST on January 10th, 2014
ABC in Fukushima: Radiation to be at U.S. coast early this year — Expert concerned about effects on food chain from unprecedented amount of migrating radioactivity — They tried to stop leaks, it’s just not working — Tepco: We don’t know what’s gone into ocean (VIDEO)

08:21 PM EST on January 9th, 2014
Gundersen: I’m now not eating Pacific Ocean fish — Bio-accumulation of Fukushima nuclear waste concerning — Effects of lower-level radiation worse than predicted (VIDEO)

- A word to the wise being sufficient unto itself, nevertheless I sincerely hope DUers, particularly those living in the western parts of the country, are taking precautions. Such as obtaining the latest information regarding radiation levels in your areas on a regular basis.

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[NYC_SKP]

1. West Coast resident here. No sign of Fukushima. Anywhere.

Using your own recommended sites showing radiation levels, like: http://www.radiationnetwork.com/Message.htm



But not ENEnews, which is like the Drudge Report of poorly sourced articles using falsely labeled images and misleading goobly gook.

I recommend to other DUers that ENEnews should be dismissed.

You know where there's a problem?

Idaho!



Period.

[bananas]

4. enenews is a news aggregator and an excellent resource. nt

[dbackjon]

9. No it is not

Links to ENE news should be banned at DU is a bunch of crap

I cannot take anyone seriously who uses ENE news as a source

It is no better than linking to Alex Jones or any other wacko conspiracy website

[Gravitycollapse]

2. ENENews is not a reliable news source, just FYI.

[bananas]

5. On the contrary - it's a reliable news aggregator.

It's not a new source in the sense that they just provide links and summaries of other news sources.
Almost all their news sources are mainstream media.

[Bonobo]

6. An audio of Gunderson saying he won't eat fish is not exactly news.

So what IS it?

[bananas]

8. Asahi Shimbun: TEPCO withheld Fukushima radioactive water measurements for 6 months

One of the links in the OP: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201401090060

And yes Gunderson's opinions are news.

[Gravitycollapse]

7. What can be said about an aggregate site with a clearly biased agenda?

It is said they are unreliable sources of information because they cherry pick stories to further their preconceived narrative.

[bananas]

10. Sounds more like the actual news doesn't fit your preconceived narrative.

Fukushima is an on-going disaster and TEPCO continues to lie, deceive, and cover-up:

Asahi Shimbun: TEPCO withheld Fukushima radioactive water measurements for 6 months

From one of the links in the OP: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201401090060

[Generic Other]

11. We do that at DU too

So does that mean our sources are unreliable?

[Gravitycollapse]

12. As a website? Yes, DU is unreliable for objective political stories.

I would not, for instance, use DU as a place to research objective news stories for official work or school papers and projects. I might use DU to explain the leftist or progressive perspective. But I would never consider DU an objective source on anything related to politics.

[pa28]

3. K&R

Arnie Gunderson gives a nice little talk on risk and perspective in the last link.