[ RadSafe ] Anyone in Berkeley, CA on Fukushima Response Group Formation

[Maury]

We just have too many rats in the cage ....   <g>  (re the overcrowding 
research fad of the '50s & '60s)  Lots of good work, but we still pack 
us in ....
Cheers,
Maury&Dog  [MaurySiskel  maurysis at peoplepc.com]
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On 8/15/2012 4:51 AM, franz.schoenhofer at chello.at wrote:
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> ---- Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com> schrieb:
>> Here is an interesting posting by activist Carol Wolman from the
>> FukushimaFalloutForum Yahoo group - there is meeting of a group in
>> Berkeley at 2PM today - note the rhetoric about Fukushima - also note
>> the last line that they are forming groups like this all over the
>> country
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>> 2 pm on Weds August 15th, at 2550 Dana #5B (at Parker).
>> Home of Cecile Pineda, author of Devil's Tango, How I Learned to Fukushima.
>> Our purpose is to raise public awareness of the dangers from the
>> nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi (F-D) which were damaged in the
>> earthquake/tsunami of March 11, 2011. Radiation that was released at
>> that time, that is still being released, and that would be released if
>> another massive earthquake, typhoon, tornado or manmade error
>> precipitates another explosion there- all present huge hazards to the
>> Bay Area and to the planet.
>> A few of us met with Yastel Yamada last week. He is a founder of
>> Skilled Veterans Corps of Fukushima (SVCF). We learned that the owner
>> of F-D, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has subcontracted to 400
>> different companies, with no overall project manager. TEPCO says it
>> can't allow the 700 elderly volunteers of SVCF to work on the
>> containment/cleanup because it has no hiring authority, and all the
>> subcontracted companies have their own employees. We learn from the
>> news that TEPCO is partly owned by the Mafia, the workers are
>> underpaid and overexposed to radiation, the work is sloppy and
>> inadequate, there are lots of leaks, TEPCO is less than candid with
>> information. Cleanup and containment are way too slow, not centrally
>> controlled, not done by people who are experts in this area.
>> Therefore, SVCF and we are advocating internationalization of F-D,
>> which can only happen if there is enough worldwide pressure, from
>> governments and from the people.
>> There is an active Fukushima Responders group in Sebastapol, which
>> meets frequently to plan public events, run a website,
>> http://fukushimaresponse.com/, hold workshops, lobby, etc. They are
>> vigiling every Friday, in support of the Japanese people, who turn out
>> every week by the 100,000's to protest the restarting of nuclear
>> plants in Japan. We will network with them, and with other FR groups
>> now forming around the country.
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