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Fukushima ‘not under control’ – TEPCO official refutes PM’s assurances

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“A senior TEPCO official contradicted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by saying the radioactive water leakage at the crippled Fukushima plant is not under control.  The official, Kazuhiko Yamashita, was asked his opinion of comments by Abe regarding the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Plant to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).  ‘I think the current situation is that it is not under control,’ Yamashita said at a hearing in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, on Friday before further apologizing for the leaks.”

http://rt.com/news/fukushima-under-control-tepco-819/

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NJ Causes Bridge Jam With Unannounced Lane Closures For ‘Study’

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“Police and elected officials in Fort Lee, N.J., say they weren’t given warning that the Port Authority planned to reduce the number of local access lanes directly from Fort Lee to the bridge from three to one—causing traffic to back up in the borough—and are still puzzled by the official explanation that the agency was conducting a study of traffic patterns. After the two local lanes handling Fort Lee traffic were closed, cars and trucks quickly clogged streets used by local travelers to reach the bridge and New York City. Local officials said the backup led to long delays for Fort Lee buses traveling for the first day of school Monday.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324665604579081630876156774.html

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Grid Down Acapulco: “There’s Nothing to Eat”

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“Though the government would like us to believe there is rarely looting or panic in the aftermath of a disaster, the fact of the matter is that within 72 hours of any serious crisis people will lose it.  Case in point: Acapulco, Mexico.  With the city devoid of law and order, and emergency responders overwhelmed, looters hit the streets in a matter of hours. You’d think that those who failed to prepare for the possibility of a disaster would be out looking to acquire extra food, fresh drinking water and supplies, but apparently, as we saw in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, electronics and other consumer goods were the order of the day.”

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/grid-down-acapulco-theres-nothing-to-eat_09192013

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Colorado Republicans ask for flood relief after voting against Sandy aid

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“Four Colorado Republicans who voted against a $50 billion federal relief bill to assist victims of Hurricane Sandy have asked the president for emergency aid to help clean up their state after devastating floods.  President Barack Obama signed an emergency declaration Sunday to help Colorado recover from the floods that continue to ravage many parts of the state.  Republican Reps. Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner, Doug Lamborn and Scott Tipton joined the rest of their state’s delegation in asking Obama to send emergency funds to Colorado, reported Think Progress.  Those same four Republicans voted against the Sandy relief package in January.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/19/colorados-house-republicans-ask-for-flood-relief-after-voting-against-sandy-aid/

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FEMA Grounds Private Drones Helping To Map Floods, Threatens Arrests

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“Boulder, Colorado has been hit by massive flooding over the past week, and it’s been something of a mess. A local company, Falcon UAV, makers of special drones which are built for the government, approved by the FAA, and specialize in using GPS and cameras to generate highly accurate maps, started helping to map the damage with those drones. It was basically making very useful, near real-time maps showing the floods. You’d think that would be useful to, say, FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency in charge of helping to coordinate the response to the floods. Instead, FEMA ordered the drones grounded or it would have people from Falcon UAV arrested.”

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130916/11503024532/fema-grounds-private-drones-helping-them-assess-boulder-flooding-because-reasons.shtml

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Ex-cops get new trial in post-Katrina bridge shootings

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“A federal judge tossed the convictions of five ex-New Orleans police officers accused of shooting an unarmed family and firing on others as they tried to flee the flooded city. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt issued a 129-page ruling that cited a lengthy list of ‘egregious and inflammatory’ comments made online by at least three Justice Department officials.  One of the top federal prosecutors in the case questioned how the officers were issued badges in a comment posted on a newspaper website just minutes before jury selection began, according to the ruling.  Prosecutors are forbidden under Justice Department policies from making public statements that could influence the outcome of a case.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/18/ex-cops-get-new-trial-over-prosecutors-postings-in-post-katrina-bridge-shootings/

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Japan unveils $500 million ice wall plan for Fukushima water leaks

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“Tokyo on Tuesday unveiled a half-billion dollar plan to stem radioactive water leaks at Fukushima, creating a wall of ice underneath the stricken plant, as the government elbowed the operator aside.  Acknowledging global concerns over a so-far ‘haphazard’ management of the crisis by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his administration will step in with public money to get the job done.  Under the 47 billion yen ($470 million) scheme announced Tuesday, scientists will freeze the soil around the stricken reactors to form an impenetrable wall they hope will direct groundwater away from the plant.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/03/japan-unveils-500-million-ice-wall-plan-for-fukushima-water-leaks/

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Fukushima leak is ‘much worse than we were led to believe’

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“They are worried about the enormous quantities of water, used to cool the reactor cores, which are now being stored on site.  Some 1,000 tanks have been built to hold the water. But these are believed to be at around 85% of their capacity and every day an extra 400 tonnes of water are being added.  ‘The quantities of water they are dealing with are absolutely gigantic,’ said Mycle Schneider, who has consulted widely for a variety of organisations and countries on nuclear issues.  ‘What is the worse is the water leakage everywhere else – not just from the tanks. It is leaking out from the basements, it is leaking out from the cracks all over the place. Nobody can measure that.'”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561

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Fukushima Radioactive Plume To Hit The US By Early 2014

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“The first radioactive ocean plume released by the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster will finally be reaching the shores of the United States sometime in 2014, according to a new study from the University of New South Wales — a full three or so years after date of the disaster. Many researchers, and also officials from the World Health Organization, have argued that the radioactive particles that do make their way to the US will have a very limited effect on human health — as the concentration of radioactive material in US waters will be well below World Health Organization safety levels. But needless to say, there is some debate on this matter.”

http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/02/fukushima-radioactive-plume-to-hit-the-us-by-early-2014/

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The Situation Keeps Getting Worse At Fukushima

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“The operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Sunday it had found highly radioactive water dripping from a pipe connecting two coolant tanks at one of four radiation hotspots.  The discovery came hours after Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said late Saturday that radioactivity at one of the other four sites measured 1,800 millisieverts per hour — a dose that would kill a human left exposed to it in four hours.  The reading was 18 times higher than a recording at the same place taken on August 22, though the company said the first measurement was done with equipment that could only reach up to 100 millisieverts.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-pipe-leaking-radioactive-water-2013-9

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