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

[Michael Dupray]

Good Afternoon,

I was involved with the decommissioning of the NTLF at Lawrence Berkeley
Lab. We ensured the workers were properly trained and oversaw all work
performed. There is no detectable H3 at the NTLF. The NTLF is currently my
office space.

Regards

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Brennan, Mike (DOH) <
Mike.Brennan at doh.wa.gov> wrote:

> It is a shame that the SVCF isn't working at Fukushima.  It is quite
> reasonable to speculate that if these skilled, knowledgeable,
> independent people were onsite the cleanup would go better, and workers
> would be safer.  It is also reasonable to speculate that the SVCF
> members would live longer, by virtue of having important work to give
> them greater focus and interest in life than the average retiree has.
>
> As for the exposure they would receive; a seventy-year-old should live
> so long that it becomes the biggest risk to their health.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Street
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 7:54 PM
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> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Anyone in Berkeley,CA on Fukushima Response
> Group Formation
>
> Wait for the NY Times to cover it. That's what we had to do with the
> people who were worried about all the radioactivity kids were exposed to
> going past Lawrence Berkeley Labs on their way to Lawrence Hall of
> Sciences (tritium from the labs). In vain did people say that the extra
> exposure was comparable to going to school at 1/8" higher elevation.
> (Fortunately in Berkeley, only the wealthy live in the hills.) Then some
> school decided not to send any kids to the lab, and the Times covered
> it. When another school made the same decision a year or two later, the
> Times covered it. (Normally, it only takes one article in the Times.)
>
> I am sympathetic with the group's complaints about the workers. In the
> US, Nuclear Energy Institute had a blog post saying we hire contract
> labor as well, but we train them-we don't pick laborers up on street
> corners and pay wages far below what everyone else gets.
>
> > 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
> >
> > 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.
> > __
>
> --
> Best wishes,
> Karen Street
> Friends Energy Project
> blog http://pathsoflight.us/musing/index.php
>
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